Moody v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1976 · most notably Clements v. Texas Co. (1925), Poenisch v. Quarnstrom (1962)
3 federal appellate · 26 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is any evidence of confirmation, or of something from which an intention to confirm might be inferred, or something entitling the purchaser to have the sale confirmed, the purchaser will be protected in bis claim of title to the land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loyd v. Waller
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.