Moore v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1969
2 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. . Tuttle · State ex rel. Crawford v. Hastings · Holley v. County of Orange · Prell v. McDonald · State ex rel. Skrainka Construction Co. v. Reber
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of deciding whether stock are affected with any disease, whether it is malignant, contagious or infectious, whether it is such as makes it necessary for the stock to be dipped or otherwise treated, or whether it is necessary to kill and destroy them, involves discretion and judgment which should be exercised with caution and wisdom.” (p. 749.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . The general rule is that official duties of a ministerial character-may be delegated to another but those requiring the exercise of judgment and discretion can not, unless specific statutory authority to do so is given. . . .” (p. 747.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coffman v. Fisher
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.