Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) it seeks to introduce the evidence not to raise an improper inference as to the accused’s character, but for some appropriate purpose which has been deemed to be an exception to the general rule of inadmissibility; (2) there is sufficient evidence to establish that the accused committed the independent offense or act; and (3) there is a sufficient connection or similarity between the independent offense or act and the crime charged so that proof of the former tends to prove the latter.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dillard v. State · Matthews v. State

2. “[T]his Court will not reverse a judgment on an issue never raised or ruled on in the trial court or enumerated by the Appellant on appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. FRYE v. the STATE. · State v. Hudson