Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The credibility of a witness may be attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, but subject to these limitations: (1) the evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, and (2) evidence of truthful character is admissible only after the character of the witness for truthfulness has been attacked by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Michael v. State

2. “A person commits an offense if the person ... intentionally or knowingly threatens another with imminent bodily injury, including the person's spouse....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wiggins v. State

3. “a person elected, selected, appointed, employed, or otherwise designated as . . . an officer, employee, or agent of government.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re SC