State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 state decisions

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That whatever differences of individual opinion may have prevailed in this court, with regard to whether the question of venue or jurisdiction of the trial court in a criminal case is one for the judge to decide as a preliminary question or one for him or the jury, as the ease may be, to decide on the trial of the defendant for the crime charged, and, whatever may have been the differences of opinion as to when the defendant should or.could raise the question of jurisdiction, there can be no doubt that, when the question is properly presented to the trial judge, it must be considered and decided by him before ¿e can compel the defendant to go to trial for the alleged offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hogan

2. ““To say that a prosecution and conviction by a court having jurisdiction in any parish where one of the newspapers found its way would protect the defendant from prosecution in any other parish does not answer the constitutional requirement that he shall be tried for what he did in the parish where the offense was committed and in no other parish. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Levand