Moran v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
December 2024
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Knights · Parker v. State · Platt 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[E]vidence that the defendant acted where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Welch v. State · Thompson v. State“The malice necessary to establish malice murder may be formed in an instant, as long as it is present at the time of the killing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mangram 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.