Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably 176 L. Ed. 2d 678 - Renico v. Lett (2010), Renico v. Lett (2010)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 123 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Commonwealth v. Drum · Commonwealth v. Samuel Jones · Commonwealth v. Kluska · Commonwealth v. Patskin
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant argues that it was reversible error on the part of the trial court to require such extended deliberation without rest for the jurors of whom ten were women. It is very significant that the jurors made no complaint nor any request that their deliberations be suspended and that they be given an opportunity to rest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ross“a monstrous doctrine ... altogether repugnant to a sense of humanity and justice”
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.