Moody v. Smoot’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Penn (1962), Goldberg v. Zellner (1921)
5 federal appellate · 73 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Being liable to a suit on the community obligations, and to have his separate property sold under execution for their payment, it is but reasonable that upon the death of the wife he should have the right to administer the common estate for the payment of the common debts without interference on part of her legal representatives.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greenwall v. Ligon
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.