Moore v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably Associates Discount Corp. v. Hardesty (1941), Janney v. Bell (1940)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 Hennessy v. Automobile Owners' Ins. · Carolina Discount Corp. v. Landis Motor Co. · Williams v. Stringfield · Gaub v. Mosher · 49 Cal. App. 696 - King v. Cline
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except as against innocent third parties, one may show that he purchased the machine from another, and that such other, though not holding under a bill of sale from the former owner, was the true owner of.the machine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boden v. Harter
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.