Moody v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1950 · most notably Franklin v. Northrup (1923), Maeder Steel Products Co. v. Zanello (1923)
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 Hicklin v. McClear · Umatilla Irrigation Co. v. Barnhart · Pengra v. Wheeler · Luse v. Isthmus Transit Railway Co. · Shmit v. Day
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the statute making it incumbent upon the court to state the facts found, the consent of a party to submit his cause for trial without the intervention of a jury must be construed as a request for a special verdict, which necessitates a finding upon all the material issues involved in the action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Cyrus““that the court should find, and state the facts constituting the primary right of action or defense, the corresponding duty and breach thereof, and the injury resulting therefrom, and, as a conclusion deducible from the facts so found, the law applicable thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Cyrus
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.