Moore v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably Montgomery v. Crum (1928), State v. Mutual Life Insurance (1910)
57 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 Boor v. Lowrey · McKee v. State · Riehl v. Evansville Foundry Ass'n · Alexander v. Swackhamer · Gebhart v. Burkett
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the conspiracy has not yet been formed, or if it has ended by the consummation of the criminal design, mere admissions or narrations of what has taken place, which had no tendency to promote the common design, are not admissible against those who were not present when the admissions were made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayhew v. State
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.