Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2002
2 district · 20 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 New Lamp Chimney Company v. Ansonia Brass and Copper Company · Carpenter v. Carpenter · 138 Pa. Super. 505 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Howard v. Howard · Drespel v. Drespel · Smith v. Smith
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]hat if there be a total defect of evidence to prove the essential fact, and the court find it without proof, the action of the court is void; but when the proof exhibited has a legal tendency to show a case of jurisdiction, then, although the proof may be slight and inconclusive, the action of the court will be valid until it is set aside by a direct proceeding for that purpose. Nor is the distinction unsubstantial, as in the one case the court acts without authority, and the action of the court is void; but in the other the court only errs in judgment upon a question properly before the court for adjudication, and of course the order or decree of the court is only voidable." [13]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“manner in which the trial court had exercised its authority to resolve the factual problem confronting it [the issue of residency].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vaile v. Dist. Ct.
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.