Moss v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1988
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Wiley v. State · 115 Tex. Crim. 274 - Whiteside v. State · 147 Tex. Crim. 75 - Hogan v. State · 41 Tex. Crim. 644 - Hamilton v. State · Johnson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, the testimony relative to appellant shooting the injured party in 1961 was admissible as original evidence to show malice, intent, and motive on the part of appellant. Such testimony being admissible to prove a main issue in the case, a charge limiting the jury’s consideration thereof was not required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thames 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.