Moore v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2013
19 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 Lay v. Fuller · McBride v. Sullivan · Lingen v. Lingen · Foster v. Lee · Butler v. Elyton Land 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A bastard who is not legitimated may only of course inherit from his mother or her descendants, even though his paternity is satisfactorily shown. Sections 7371, 7372, Code [1923; Secs. 7 and 8, Tit. 16, Code 1940].” [ 220 Ala. 47 , 124 So. 81 ]”
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.