Moore v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 1983 · most notably Hayden v. Dannenberg (1914), Rogers v. Harris (1919)
44 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 Logan v. United States · United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. · Maxwell Land-Grant Case · Lalone v. United States · United States v. Maxwell Land-Grant 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We take the general doctrine to be that, when in a court of equity it is proposed to set aside, to annul, or to correct a written instrument for fraud or mistake in the execution of the instrument itself, the testimony on which this is done must be clear, unequivocal, and convincing, and that it cannot be done upon a bare preponderance of evidence which leaves the issue ini doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Bruner
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.