Moore v. Leseur’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1992
9 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 Stone v. Gover · Powell v. Powell · Long v. Rogers · Carter v. Penn · Lindsay v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . [W]e have no hesitation in pronouncing that the word seal, written in a scroll after the signature, without any thing further to indicate the intention of the parties to make it a sealed instrument, does not constitute it a specialty. This precise question came before the court at an early day, (Lee v. Adkins , Minor's R. 187,) and it was adjudged in accordance with the view we have expressed. The question again arose in Carter Carter v. Penn , 4 Ala. 140 , and there it was held that although the note was executed since the statute of 2d Feb. 1839, yet the word `seal,' written within circumflex lines after the signature did not constitute it a sealed instrument."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crane v. Pringle
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.