State v. Moyer’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Dobbert v. Florida · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 635. Murder in the second degree; class A felony. “A person is guilty of murder in the second degree when; “(1) He recklessly causes the death of another person under circumstances which manifest a cruel, wicked and depraved indifference to human life;””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vasquez v. Vaughn · Waters v. State““§ 641. Extreme emotional distress. “The fact that the accused intentionally caused the death of another person under the influence of extreme emotional distress is a mitigating circumstance, reducing the crime of murder in the first degree as defined by § 636 of this Criminal Code to the crime of manslaughter as defined by § 632 of this Criminal Code. The fact that the accused acted under the influence of extreme emotional distress must be proved by him by a preponderance of the evidence. The accused must further prove by a preponderance of the evidence that there is a reasonable explanation or excuse for the existence of the extreme emotional distress. The reasonableness of the explanation or excuse shall be determined from the viewpoint of a reasonable person in the accused’s situation under the circumstances as he believed them to be.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bates 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.