Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Mortensen v. Mortensen (1945), Lundy v. Lundy (1922)
38 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law has wisely enjoined upon the courts the duty of watching over these proceedings with the greatest scrutiny and interposing to prevent abuses of tbe delicate and responsible power confided to them to dissolve tbe marriage contract. What shall be deemed sufficient cause of divorce must ever be matter of law, and tbe law has made it tbe dnty of tbe judge to refuse a decree unless satisfied of tbe truth and sufficiency of tbe evidence by which those causes are established.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cain v. Cain
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.