Moore v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Bongiovi v. Sullivan (2006), Nevada Power Co. v. Flour Illinois (1992)
28 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Desist v. United States · Durham v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Nathan Richman, Administrator v. General Motors Corporation · Linda Roberta POND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BRANIFF AIRWAYS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exercise [the inherent] power [to dismiss] within the bounds of sound judicial discretion, independent of any SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 11 1941A 424!P authority granted under statutes or court rules.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The element necessary to justify dismissal for failure to prosecute is lack of diligence on the part of the plaintiff, whether individually or through counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because dismissal with prejudice is the most severe sanction that a court may apply. . . its use must be tempered by a careful exercise of judicial discretion.”
2 later decisions 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.