Moss v. Director’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Hicks (1979), Williams v. State (1981)
52 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 Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Cass v. United States · Lipsett Steel Products, Inc. v. Mosley
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is now a familiar principle of statutory construction in this State that use of the word ‘shall’ is presumed mandatory unless its context would indicate otherwise ....” Id. at 564-565 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.