People v. Moya’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably People v. Rivera (1974), People v. Dillon (1982)
53 state decisions
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 Payne v. People · Zarate v. People · People v. Montague · Nora v. People
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A properly worded instruction setting forth such a defendant’s theory in a case of this nature when supported by the evidence should always be given by a trial court unless the defendant’s theory is encompassed in other instructions to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Meller
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.