Moyer v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1936
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the land had been entirely paid for, or if the contract had been performed in full, a question might arise whether such a possessory right had not arisen that it needed no further aid from the holder of the legal title. And, in case that should be deemed essential, the question whether a deed to which the purchaser was at the time absolutely entitled might not, when subsequently executed, relate back to such time to uphold an action, would differ very much from the question presented here. In both of those cases, the purchaser is the only person who can be injured by the spoliation of the land.””
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.