Hudson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Canterbury v. Spence (1972), Wilkinson v. Harrington (1968)
6 federal appellate · 71 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 Cartwright v. Braly · Kelly v. Shropshire · Burton v. Tribble · Peters Mineral Land Co. v. Hooper · Jordan & Sons v. Pickett
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In actions seeking relief on the ground of fraud where the statute has created a bar, the cause of action must not be considered as having accrued until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the fact constituting the fraud, after which he must have one year within which to prosecute his suit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where confidential relations exist, as between physician and patient, the duty to disclose may render silence fraudulent, but knowledge of the facts is a necessary element of fraudulent concealment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Fraudulent concealment implies knowledge of the facts concealed. This is settled in our decisions as elsewhere. Jordan Sons v. Pickett , 78 Ala. 331 ; Southern Land Development Co. v. Meyer , 230 Ala. 40 , 159 So. 245 ; Griel v. Lomax , 89 Ala. 420 , 6 So. 741 ; Lovell v. Smith et al. , 232 Ala. 626 , 169 So. 280 ; Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. James , 238 Ala. 337 , 191 So. 352 , 355 . . . .”
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.