Myers v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2011
8 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 Miller v. Schoene · Almond v. Day · City of Portsmouth v. Weiss · Shub v. Simpson · Farquhar v. Board of Supervisors
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n a well ordered society it is important for people to know what their legal rights are, not only under constitutions and legislative enactments but also as defined by judicial precedent ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if it be said that the same constitutional questions raised here have not been previously passed upon, we have repeatedly held that a decree or judgment of this Court upholding the constitutionality of a statute conclusively settles the question of its validity and the statute is then free from all constitutional objections, whether assigned or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one of the most important principles in the structure of our law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oraee v. Breeding
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.