Moore v. Hazelwood’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. United States (1963), Mason v. Peterson (1923)
5 federal appellate · 25 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense is one which may be urged at any time when the vendor seeks to collect the purchase money that would be due had the contract not been made under mutual mistake as to a matter which must have influenced the making of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Yoakum“That the land was conveyed with special warranty is of no importance, for this action is not based on any breach of warranty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Yoakum
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.