Moore v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1938
16 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 Abshire v. Williamson · Haymaker v. Schneck · Case v. Nelson · Kreuter v. English Lake Land Co. · Kuhn v. American Mutual Life Insurance
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is certainly clear that by the order of the court the interests of the estate in effect were promoted. Especially is this true in regard to the $600 allowed to the administrator as compensation for his services, which amount, as shown, the court required him to turn over to the estate to be applied in payment of the claim or obligation in question. It appears that he is wholly insolvent, and that the estate will be compelled to pay out of its assets the claim upon which he is the principal debtor. By the order of the court the estate virtually secured the benefit of $600 in money, and to this amount, at least, the assets thereof for the payment of claims may be said to have been increased. The judgment or order of the court, considered either in part or as a whole, was certainly, under the circumstances, in the interest of the estate, and the latter, as previously said, was thereby promoted. “The estate certainly, under the circumstances, can have no ground of complaint, and no reason for appealing from the judgment below. Jonathan J. Moore, personally, is the only person, under the facts, interested in securing a reversal of the judgment, while, upon the other hand, the estate of Willis E. Moore is interested in maintaining it as rendered in the lower court. Under these circumstances the interest of Moore as an individual and the interest of the estate which he seeks to represent as administrator are antagonistic to each other. Moore as administrator of the estate and Mo”
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.