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← 302 GA 162 - Moran v. State

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.

  1. “'[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 passage
  2. “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 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.