Moore v. McAllister’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Pulley v. State (1980), First Federated Commodity Trust Corp. v. Commissioner of Securities (1974)
3 federal appellate · 84 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 Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Pennsylvania v. Williams · Di Giovanni v. Camden Fire Insurance · Atlas Life Ins Co v. W I Southern · Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Juridically, jurisdiction refers to two quite distinct concepts: (i) the power of a court to render a valid decree, and (ii) the propriety of granting the relief sought. 1 Pomeroy, Equity Jurisprudence (5th ed. 1941), Secs. 129-31.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.