Moore v. Hensley’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
January 1976
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bayless v. Lefaivre · Mackler v. Schuster · Cummings v. Ellis · Crook v. Peebly · Harryman v. Titus
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The courts will not recognize a cause of action whereby one will be permitted to profit by his own wrongful and illegal act. Defendant’s possession is no different, so far as recovering for the care and feeding of the hogs is concerned, than it would be if he had knowingly and wrongfully taken and converted the stock to his own use (and in fact that was what his act amounted to). It cannot be the law that one can wrongfully convert stock and then recover charges for feeding and caring for it. . . .” (p. 331.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chasteen v. Childers
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.