Moore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Whittaker v. Commonwealth (1977), Clinebell v. Commonwealth (1988)
36 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 Basham v. Terry, Administratrix · McCue v. Commonwealth · Fowlkes v. Commonwealth · Sutherland v. Commonwealth · Trout v. Commonwealth
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a difference between indulging a presumption in favor of an officer having done a duty which the law casts upon him and indulging a presumption that a fact exists, which the statute requires to exist, in order to constitute a criminal offense. It ought not to have been too difficult a matter to prove the regulations of the State Board of Education, or how the bus was marked, and not rest the case wholly upon a matter of opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to convict. . . the burden was on the Commonwealth to show that the school bus was properly marked or identified. It is true that the driver of the bus and the police officer said it was so marked. However, their statements were merely expressions of their opinions. The defendant had the right to test their knowledge of regulations involved and of the facts attending actual markings and identification on the bus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is elementary in this state. . . that the accused in a criminal case. is presumed to be innocent until his guilt has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt; that the burden rests upon the Commonwealth to establish such guilt and the burden never shifts. . . . Every material element of the offense charged must be proved in order to find the defendant guilty”
1 later decision 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.