Moore v. McNamara’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 district · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. (1989), State v. Miller (1987)
6 district · 196 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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Frye v. United States · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · Gomez v. Perez · Mills v. Habluetzel
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute of limitations is generally considered to be procedural, especially where the statute contains only a limitation as to time with respect to a right of action and does not itself create the right of action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“considerations of good sense and justice”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]his court has a basic judicial duty to avoid deciding a constitutional issue if a nonconstitutional ground exists that will dispose of the case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.