Moore v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
476 federal appellate · 77 district · 1,421 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,367 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Bagley (1985), United States v. Agurs (1976)
476 federal appellate · 77 district · 1,421 state decisions — followed in 43 states
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Barker v. Wingo · Giglio v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Witherspoon v. Illinois
Cited together with Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · United States v. Bagley · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
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 2,367 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no constitutional requirement that the prosecution make a complete and detailed accounting to the defense of all police investigatory work on a case.”
123 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * the alternative claim that a specific request is not an ‘indispensable prerequisite’ for the disclosure of exonerating evidence by the State and that the defense could not be expected to make a request for specific evidence that it did not know was in existence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Nor, finally, does today’s holding render invalid the conviction, as opposed to the sentence, in this or any other case.’ (emphasis in original). The sentence of death, however, may not now be imposed.””
2 later decisions 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.