Moore v. Holbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 148 F. Supp. 430 - Adkins v. School Board of the City of Newport News (1957), Mowery v. Coffman (1946)
20 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 Wornom v. Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute · Southworth v. Sullivan · Trice v. Powell · Miller's Adm'r v. Potterfield · Hansbrough v. Trustee of Presbyterian Church
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any interest in or claim to real estate or personal property be disposed of by deed or will for life, with a limitation in remainder over, and in the same instrument there be conferred expressly or by implication a power upon the life tenant in his lifetime or by will to dispose absolutely of said property, the limitation in remainder over, shall not fail, or be defeated, except to the extent that the life tenant shall have lawfully exercised such power of disposal. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rawlings v. Briscoe“If any interest in or claim to real estate or personal property be disposed of by deed or will for life, with a limitation in remainder over, and in the same instrument there be conferred expressly or by implication a power upon the life tenant in his lifetime or by will to dispose absolutely of such property, the limitation in remainder over shall not fail, or be defeated, except to the extent that the life tenant shall have lawfully exercised such power of disposal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“After all my just debts are paid, I will give and bequeath all my property both real and personal to my beloved husband * * *. He is to dispose of said property as he sees fit — If he chooses to sell it he may do so, in order he may be able to use it for Ms comfort. Should there be any thing left after his death I desire it to be given to the cemetery for the upkeep of our lot. * ⅜ *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.