Green v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1990
5 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 Baker v. Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. · Martin, Com'r of Revenue v. Louisville Motors · City of Louisville v. Board of Education · Gold Trading Stamp Company v. Commonwealth · Hewlett v. Springfield
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the search for the legislative will, we start with the pertinent conditions existing when the law was enacted, with their background and development, and look toward the object intended to be reached or accomplished. * * * Those attendant circumstances, the context of the act and its consequences are controlling, even though it may be necessary to modify the language used in order to make it consistent. * * * ””
1 later decision 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.