Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.2d 97 · 1965
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1971), Posey v. United States (1969)
35 federal appellate · 16 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 Allen v. United States · Jenkins v. United States · Green v. United States · Kenneth Jones v. United States of America, Willis Campbell, Jr. v. United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A reasonable doubt is a doubt that is based on reason, it is founded on reason, it is a doubt for which you may assign a reason. It is a doubt that connotes something of substance as compared to something shadowy. It is such a doubt as would leave a juror’s mind, after a careful and candid investigation of all the facts and circumstances, so undecided that he cannot say that he has an abiding conviction of the defendant’s guilt, or such a doubt as in the graver, more important transactions of life would cause an ordinary and prudent person to hesitate and pause. “While the law does not require proof to be made to a mathematical or absolute certainty, it does not permit men to be convicted of crime on mere suspicion, conjecture or possibility of guilt. “In order to justify conviction the evidence should be such that when you consider it carefully and apply to it your sound and conscientious judgments as reasonable men and women, you can say that you have no reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant. If it would fall short of convincing you to that extent, this defendant should be given the benefit of a reasonable doubt and found not guilty. “A reasonable doubt may arise not only from the evidence produced at the trial, but also from a lack of evidence, for the law does not impose upon a defendant the duty of producing any evidence. “In order to establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the evidence must be such that you would be willing to act upon it in the more import”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, since the charge is potentially coercive, its content and manner of use deserve scrutiny.”
2 later decisions 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.