Moralee v. Cadwell’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Adoption of Strauser Ex Rel. Lucas v. Strauser (1948), Bradley v. Tweedy (1925)
34 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Matter of the Estate Op Bernard NewMan · Kroff v. Amrhein · In re Walworth's Estate · Atchison v. Atchison's Ex'rs · Buckley v. Frasier
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all of his brothers and sisters died prior to the time of his death,”
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.