Moore v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1961
19 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 Glenn v. City of Birmingham · Barksdale v. Banks · Hyatt v. Reynolds · Donohoo v. Smith · Bennett & Co. v. Brooks
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in Alabama that where one purchases chattels from another not the legal owner thereof, such purchaser acquires no better title than his seller had although he purchases without notice of the infirmity, and for a valuable consideration Hi * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McRae v. Bandy
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.