Irving J. Moritt v. Harry L. Fine’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.2d 128 · 1957
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1987
13 federal appellate · 4 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 Millet v. Godchaux Sugars, Inc. · Des Isles v. Evans · Arthur T. Stanton v. Everett P. Larsh · Tauzin v. Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. · Kirton v. Atlantic Coast Line 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In appraising the sufficiency of the complaint we follow, of course, the accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of this claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Hjowever much authority it is alleged [the agent] had to act for the owners of the land he did not purport to exercise this authority by signing as their agent to sell; his signature merely acknowledges his own receipt of the money and his own consequent obligation.” Id. at 131 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacKnight v. Pansey
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.