Moss v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Combes v. Getz (1932), 10 Cal. 2d 160 - Penziner v. West American Finance Co. (1937)
2 district · 43 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 Huntington v. Attrill · State of Louisiana Folsom v. Mayor Etc of the City of New Orleans · Chase v. Curtis · Hornor v. Henning · Winchester v. Howard
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any statute may be repealed at any time, except when it is otherwise provided therein. Persons acting under any statute are deemed to have acted in contemplation of this power of repeal.””
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.