Moore v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1964
5 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 Pepper v. Cairns · Knox County v. Goggin · Englemann v. Reuse · Johnson v. Shattuck · 12 N.J. Eq. 48 - Cooper v. Headley
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Agency is a fact to be determined by the peculiar circumstances of each case; so that there are many cases holding that the broker who acts as intermediary between the parties is, under some conditions, the agent of one party, and under other conditions, the agent of the other party. It seems to us, however, that the problem must be solved by determining under whose direction the broker was acting....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is undisputed that Kellogg was employed by Blackburn to obtain this loan, and was to be paid a commission for his services. This fact alone, under the ruling of many cases, would make him the agent of Blackburn. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clemson v. Best
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.