State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2001
12 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 McDonald v. . Carson · Clements v. Southern Railway Co. · Lee v. Hoff · Strayhorn v. . Blalock · Grady v. Richmond & Danville Railroad
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the service of summons and not the return of the officer that confers jurisdiction.... The Court in its discretion may permit an officer to amend his return by adding further specifications as to the manner of service or the acts done in compliance with the statute....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hassell v. Wilson“`Served' implies service as by law required. * * * So then the return `served', or as here, `served on Tar Heel Bonding Company * * *', signed by the officer in his official capacity is sufficientat least prima facie to show service.”
1 later decision 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.