Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Transcontinental Insurance v. RBMW, Inc. (2001), City of Hopewell v. Cogar (1989)
34 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 Case v. Case · Kemper v. Calhoun · Patterson v. Old Dominion Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Staunton Mutual Telephone Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly the mere filing by the commissioner of his report, without more, under Virginia equity practice does not amount to a “submission” of the cause to the trial court for decision. Such a report may repose in the file in the clerk’s office for many months for any number of reasons before the cause is brought to the attention of the chancellor for adjudication. Moreover, and contrary to the husband’s contention, the unilateral act of this defendant of forwarding to the court a sketch for a decree is not equivalent to a “submission” in the statutory context. For a “submission” to have occurred under the procedural circumstances of this suit, in which both litigants were represented by counsel who had filed pleadings in the cause, it was necessary for the parties, by counsel, to have both yielded the issues to the court for consideration and decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A party shall not be allowed to suffer a nonsuit as to any cause of action or claim, or any other party to the proceeding, unless he does so before a motion to strike the evidence has been sustained or before the jury retires from the bar or before the action has been submitted to the court for decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the parties, by counsel . . . both yield [ ] the issues to the court for consideration and decision. This [may be] accomplished either as the result of oral or written argument, formal notice and motion, or by tendering a jointly endorsed sketch for a decree.”
1 later decision 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.