Moore v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 2 Va. App. 178 - Venable v. Venable (1986), Glover v. Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. (1971)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Windsor v. McVeigh · Galpin v. Page · The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. The Town of Pawlet and Ozias Clarke · Hodges v. Kimball · Dorr's Adm'r v. Rohr
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has been established in this jurisdiction that a foreign administrator, who has acquired no status in Virginia, is without authority to institute in his official capacity any action or suit in the courts of this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harmon v. Sadjadi
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.