Moore v. Berkeley County’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2004
12 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 McCall v. Batson · Gulledge v. Young · Marlow v. Marlow · Ralston Purina Co. v. O'DELL · Harmon v. Harmon
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]overeign immunity will not bar recovery in any case currently pending or in those filed on or before July 1, 1986, provided the defendant has liability insurance coverage. Recovery shall not exceed the limits of the liability insurance coverage,” and ”[s]overeign immunity shall not apply to any case filed after July 1, 1986.” The Moore Court held that”
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.