Moore v. . Mayor’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably U.S. East Telecommunications, Inc. v. US West Communications Services, Inc. (1994), Bell v. Kirkland (1907)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The unauthorized acts of city authorities—that is, those ultra vires, in the sense that they are not within the general powers conferred—are not binding on the corporation, and corporations are not estopped by acts of corporate-agents strictly ultra vires.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.