State v. Moxley’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 1992 · most notably 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio (1986), State v. Tiedt (1950)
50 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 State v. Wieners · Dukes v. State · Davis v. State · People v. Strong · Hand v. Inhabitants of Brookline
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he attorney appointed by the court to prosecute in the place of an absent, sick, or disqualified officer has the same power to draw and to sign bills of indictment as the regular official. If this be not true, then it must be confessed that there is a very lame place in our criminal practice” (State v. Moxley, supra); and it will be remembered that in the portion of the same opinion which we have quoted on an earlier page the court said that Such a special prosecutor is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by facts and circumstances, all of which are consistent with each other and with his guilt, and absolutely inconsistent with any reasonable theory of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conway“the court having criminal jurisdiction may appoint some other attorney to prosecute, . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Huett
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.