Moore v. Schoen’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1981
5 federal appellate · 10 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 Barnett v. Caldwell Furniture Co. · Illinois Life Ass'n v. Wells · Landis v. Wolf · Linquist v. Hodges · Whalen v. Stephens
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A recovery may be had for prospective profits, when there are any criteria by which probable profits can be estimated with reasonable certainty. [Citing cases.] ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Condition Precedent. In pleading the performance of a condition precedent in a contract, it is suEcient to allege generally that the party performed all the conditions on his part; if the allegation be denied, the facts must be alleged in connection with the denial showing wherein there was a failure to perform.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 110A, par. 133(c).)”
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.