Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Owens v. Owens (1967), Coleman v. Estes (1967)
30 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 Clark v. Whitfield · Ellis v. Stickney · Wells v. Wells · Woods v. Sanders · Didlake v. Roden Grocery Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a familiar principle that equity grants full relief when it has jurisdiction on an equitable ground to grant any relief. Having assumed jurisdiction of a part the court will determine all the interrelated equities of the whole. `Equity delights to do justice, and not by halves.' The bill in the instant case is based upon these fundamentals and will avoid multiplicity of suits."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lámar v. Lámar · Ex Parte Handley““. • . • Having assumed jurisdiction of the subject matter, it is not only the right but the duty of the court to settle all equities and adjust all claims arising out of or affecting the interests of the parties in the subject matter involved or relating to the same property. (Citations Omitted.)” Moore v. Moore, 255 Ala. 393, 399 , 51 So.2d 683, 688 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. Ellis““The relation of partners with each other with respect to the assets and liabilities and the profits and losses of the firm is a confidential one. Each is in a measure a trustee so long as the business continues and the partnership relation obtains. The statute of limitations does not run in favor of one or against the other.””
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.