Moss v. Cogle’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Ardente v. Horan (1976), Katz v. Pratt Street Realty Co. (1970)
25 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 Vinyard v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Blackburn v. McLaughlin · Asbury v. Cochran · Heflin v. Milton · Ross v. Parks
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Every contract for the sale of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or of any interest therein, except leases for a term not longer than one year, unless the purchase money, or a portion thereof is paid and the purchaser is put in possession of the land by the seller. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Houston v. McClure“to protect the rights of all parties and do complete justice between them.”
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.