Moore v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1991
11 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · People v. . Gillson · State v. . Harris
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the legislature may for the sole purpose of pre venting unfair advertisements, solicitations, bad workmanship and unscrupulous dealings, pass laws to limit a given business to those who are found to be honest and competent, there would be no business which would be immune from such prohibitory legislation.””
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.