Moores's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Hahn v. Ross Island Sand & Gravel Co. (1959), T. Smith & Son, Inc. v. Williams (1960)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 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 Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries · Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. Rohde · The Robert W. Parsons · Millers' Indemnity Underwriters v. Braud
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to include within a wide circle of doubt all waterfront cases involving aspects pertaining both to the land and to the sea where a reasonable argument can be made either way.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he distinction between working on navigable water in repairing a previously completed vessel and doing precisely the same work on navigable water upon a vessel in process of construction may be thought a narrow one of doubtful practical validity.” Moore’s Case, 323 Mass. 162, 167-168 , 80 N. E. 2d 478, 481 (1948).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and the injured workman may recover under either of them.”
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.