Moore v. Exelby’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Ray v. Wooster (1954), Brown v. Arkansas Central Power Co. (1927)
46 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 Ryan v. United States · Waring v. . Ayres · Dollar v. Knight · Ashcraft v. Tucker · Stanford v. Sager
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . if we take every part of the description in the letters, including the acreage and location, and give every part its due weight, we have a fixed and definite tract of land. . . .” “The letters which constitute the contract identify and furnish the meo,ns of finding the land.” [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to be sufficient, the letters relied upon must by reference to each other disclose every material part of a valid contract and must be signed by the party sought to be charged.”
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.