Moulton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably Anderson v. State (1922), Arant v. State (1936)
111 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 Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Gonzalez · Cross v. State · Battle v. United States · Johnson v. State · Griffin v. State
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘For the first time in the history of this court since the appointment of an official stenographer so far as I am advised, the judge of the court has been requested to render his charge to the jury in writing. This is a privilege which the law gives, but whether I will be able to make the law in this case more plain to you in a written charge than I could by minutely explaining it to you orally it matters not.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . [I]t is matter of common knowledge that jurors are very susceptible to the influence of the presiding judge, watching him with a quick understanding of every indication of opinion. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Much will depend upon the issues, the parties, and the general atmosphere of the particular case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crenshaw 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.