Moore v. Shofner’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1921
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Frost v. Spitley · United States v. Wilson · O'Hara v. Parker · Hardin v. Jones · Churchill v. . Onderdonk
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.
““Any person claiming an interest or estate in real estate not in tlie actual possession ot another may maintain a suit in equity against another who claims an interest or estate therein adverse to him, for the purpose of de-terming such conflicting or adverse claims, interests, or estates.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court below decreed the title to be in. the defendant. Being without jurisdiction, it could not go to that extent. The defendant had not demanded it, and the court should have dismissed the complaint merely with costs to the defendant, and such will be the order of this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elbing v. Hastings
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.