Moore v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably The Industrial Development Board of the Town of Section, Alabama v. Fuqua Industries, Inc., the Industrial Development Board of the City of Fort Payne, Alabama v. Fuqua Industries, Inc. (1975), Adler v. Miller (1928)
6 federal appellate · 73 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 Shriner v. Craft · Formby v. Williams · Elliott v. Howison · Hand Lumber Co. v. Hall · Stoudenmeier v. Williamson
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * either party may waive any right or benefit he may have by a contract, and if the other party acts upon the faith of the waiver, the question of consideration is out of the case, upon the doctrine of estoppel * * *.””
2 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.