State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2002
16 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 United States v. Josef Perez · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Arizona v. Rumsey · Lyon v. California · State v. Goodman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the defendant must have committed the homicidal act by his own conduct before he can be convicted of murder. The factual determination that the defendant committed the murder by his own conduct only becomes important after the defendant is found guilty of murder. [ Ibid. ]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mejia · State v. Cruz“`is not an element of the offense of murder [but is] merely a triggering device for the death-penalty phase of the trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mejia · State v. Simon“`[t]he gravamen of [the (4)(f)] factor is the silencing of potential witnesses, which could be for the underlying crime being committed or for a crime committed at another time'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hightower
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.