Moss v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Sanchez v. Schindler (1983), Laidlaw Waste Systems (Dallas), Inc. v. City of Wilmer (1995)
8 federal appellate · 29 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 Markham v. Cabell · Cabell v. Markham · Arnold v. Leonard · Massachusetts v. United States · Johnson v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the questions are of statutory construction, not of constitutional import, [the Legislature] can rectify our mistake, if such it was, or change its policy at any time, and in these circumstances reversal is not readily to be made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“make a fortress out of the dictionary; but to remember that statutes always have some purpose or object to accomplish, whose sympathetic and imaginative discovery is the surest guide to their meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Bell““Neither the separate property of the wife * * * nor the revenue from her separate property shall be subject to the payment of debts contracted by the husband * *”
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.