Moore Son v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Blinn v. McDonald (1899), Buchner v. Wait (1911)
2 district · 80 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under our decisions it is held that, when property is distributed among the heirs and a debt against the ancestor remains unpaid, the creditor may sue the heir and recover a personal judgment against him for the debt, to the amount of the value of the property received by the heirs from the estate, but that a judgment cannot be entered foreclosing a lien upon that property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Albert v. Bascom““But she had the right to abandon the use of it as a homestead, when it would become subject to partition as other property When she filed this suit and asked the court to partition the estate, including the property claimed as a homestead afterwards, it was a waiver of her right to use and occupy it as a homestead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Godwin
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.