Moore v. Western Forge Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2025
5 district · 14 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Travelers Insurance Co. v. Savio · Farmers Group, Inc. v. Williams · 180 Cal. App. 2d 898 - Tate v. Canonica · Owens v. Davis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to spell out rules of law limiting the liability of a negligent actor'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] defendant’s conduct “is not a cause of another’s injuries if, in order to bring about such injuries, it was necessary that the conduct combine or join with an intervening cause which also contributed to cause the injuries, but which intervening cause would not have been reason? ably foreseen.-by a reasonably careful person under the circumstances.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“negligence resulted in delirium, insanity, or, in some cases, other mental conditions that precluded the deceased from making a rational choice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.