Moore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1970
8 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 Commonwealth v. Dincler
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * (1) It will be perceived that the affiant did not state either of three essentials necessary to authorize the issuing of a search warrant directing the sheriff to search the premises of appellant, which are: * * *; nor did she state that the purchase was made from the appellant himself or from any clerk in his employ acting under his implied direction; * * * (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.