Moore v. Walker County’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Hutchinson v. Board of Trustees of University of Alabama (1971), Laney v. Jefferson County (1947)
28 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 Riddoch v. State · Askew v. Hale County · White v. Alabama Insane Hospital · Alabama Girls' Industrial School v. Reynolds · Montgomery v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So, then, in the operation of a hospital, where its needy might receive care and medical attention, Walker County was but performing a governmental duty, and exercising a governmental power, expressly conferred by the Legislature. [Citations omitted.]”
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.