Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1960
9 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 Walker v. Hull
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This provision is as necessary where legacies are left as where they are not, and the statute was passed to avoid the cruelty of leaving a family exposed to want- during the interval of settlement. The statute is full, and in no way doubtful, and the allowance was proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pulling v. Durfee
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.