Moore v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Pryor's Administrator v. Otter (1937), Utilities Appliance Co. v. Toon's Administrator (1932)
5 federal appellate · 61 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 The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. The Philadelphia and Havre De Grace Steam Towboat Company · Chase v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Sutton v. Town of Wauwatosa · Southern Ry. v. Goddard · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Aetna Accident & Liability Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The right of a person to maintain an action for a wrong committed upon him is not taken away because he was, at the time of the injury, disobeying a statute law which in no way contributed to his injury. He is not placed outside all protection of the law, nor does he forfeit all his civil rights merely because he is committing a statutory misdemeanor. The wrong on the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When the plaintiff shows that the rate of speed at which the defendant was traveling was greater than that prescribed by the statute for that place, the burden then shifts to the defendant to show that the speed at which he was traveling did not produce the injury. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Landis v. Wick
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.