Moore v. Redding’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1934
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 right to have the use of money for a defined time, and the right to have interest at any agreed rate, for any defined time, are alike deemed valuable in law; and reciprocal promises — one by the creditor, to permit the money to remain on interest, and the other by the debtor, to retain it on interest — mutually support each the other. Brown v. Prophit, 53 Miss. 649 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Levy““It is equally well settled that if the creditor, without the consent of the surety, enters into a contract with the principal, by which the right of action is suspended for a specific time, the surety is released. A, contract, of course, implies a consideration, and the agreement of the parties upon the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Levy
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.