Moberly v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1973
17 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 May v. Gibler · Smith v. Ohio Millers Mutual Fire Insurance · Farmers' Bank v. Worthington · Oldham v. Wright · 222 Mo. App. 268 - Ida Thompson v. Schultz
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is most frequently to be deduced from the circumstances surrounding the transaction, and from the acts of the parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the proof must be of such a positive and definite character as to convince the mind of the chancellor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the abstract is sufficiently clear to present the questions raised.”
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.