Moran v. Prather’s Empirical Analysis
90 U.S. 492 · 1874
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Ellicott (1912), Powers v. Southland Corp. (1993)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Smith v. Adsit
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]erms of art or technical phrases are to be interpreted according to their received meaning with those who profess the art or profession to which they belong.”
1 later decision 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.