Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1972
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Fiscus v. Moore · Hankins v. Kimball · Duncan v. Gainey · Kidwell v. Kidwell · Weakley v. Conradt
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An administrator has no right to the possession of the real estate of his decedent, but the title to the same, with the right of possession, vests at the. instant of the death of the intestate in his heirs subject to the debts of the intestate, and they take and retain such title with all the rights and incidents belonging thereto subject to the right of the administrator to procure an order to sell the same"- • to pay said debts. ' “An executor or administrator has no authority . to sell the real estate of his decedent, except by order of court, in the absence of a testamentary-provision authorizing such sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.