Moore, Ex Parte’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1891
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act of 1784 has not indicated the remedy for an illegal or excessive allotment of dower, but the usages of our courts have defined it, to wit: `That where the report of a jury is returned, exceptions may be thereunto taken by any one aggrieved, and the court will set aside the allotment and order a new allotment, if sufficient cause be shown'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Welfare v. . Welfare
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.