State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Webb (1996), Sireci v. Florida (1982)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 55 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“describes in the disjunctive two separate circumstances which may operate in conjunction with or independent of one another.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Victor · State v. Otey“determine whether the driver would be a suitable victim, i.e., not too young, since the defendant stated that it was easier for him to shoot an older man rather than a younger man nearer his own age.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore · Moore v. Clarke“[t]he murder was especially heinous, atrocious, cruel, or manifested exceptional depravity by ordinary standards of morality and intelligence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.