Moore v. State of Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 673 · 1895
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 18 district · 233 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Monge v. California (1998), Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson (1942)
120 federal appellate · 18 district · 233 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Kemmler · Missouri v. Lewis · Duncan v. Missouri · Leeper v. State of Texas
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the punishment for the second [offense] is increased, because by his persistence in the perpetration of crime, [the defendant] has evinced a depravity, which merits a greater punishment, and needs to be restrained by severer penalties than if it were his first offense.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The punishment is for the last offense committed, and it is rendered more severe in consequence of the situation in which the party had previously brought himself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the accused is not again punished for the first offence”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.