Moore v. Dimond’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1998
21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 John Lewis v. Sarah Darling · Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church v. Jaques
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.
“There is nothing in the terms of the devise to indicate any intention of the testator that the remainder should go to those only of the children who might survive her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sawyer v. Poteat
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.