Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2023
12 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Walker v. State · Martin v. State · Lumpkin v. State · Young 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven assuming that simple battery as set forth in either subsection (1) or subsection (2) of OCGA § 16-5-23 (a) can be a lesser included offense of cruelty to children in the first degree, it is not in this case because there was simply no evidence to support the offense of simple battery. ... If the jury believed that an accident occurred, no battery was committed. However, if the jury accepted the State’s evidence, then it was authorized to find that [Elrod intentionally] assaulted the child, thereby maliciously causing the child cruel and excessive physical. . . pain. In the circumstances, as here, where the evidence demonstrates commission of the completed offense as charged or that there was no criminal offense committed, the trial court is not required to charge on a lesser included offense. 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elrod 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.