Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 1982 · most notably Upton v. State (1974), Sweatt v. State (1971)
6 federal appellate · 41 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 Alford v. State · Middleton v. State · Mays v. State · Ezell v. State · Howard 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the effect of an erroneous instruction or ruling of the trial court might result in prejudice, the rule is thát the judgment must be reversed on account of such ruling, unless it affirmatively appears that there was no prejudice. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.