Moore v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1963
12 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 Myers v. Reinstein · Knight v. Russ · Blood v. Fairbanks · Sedgwick v. Sedgwick · Chase v. Evoy
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If ft be conceded that the court can look beyond the letter of the statute, and determine whether a given case is within the reason of the rule, it does not appear in this case that Chapman [the surviving partner] had no interest in establishing the claim against the estate. His own default had been entered, upon which judgment subsequently passed against him. He had an interest in having judgment rendered, thereby compelling the estate to contribute to the satisfaction of the claim. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kessler v. Kessler
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.