Moore v. Otis’s Empirical Analysis
275 F. 747 · 1921
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1949
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Burgess v. Seligman · Ogden v. Saunders · Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Edwards v. Kearzey · Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The laws existing at the time of the issuance of the bonds and under the authority of which they were issued, enter into and become a part of the contract in such way that the obligation of the contract cannot thereafter be in any way impaired or its fulfillment hampered or obstructed by a change in the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hubbell v. Leonard
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.