Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Stogner v. California (2003), 21 Cal. 4th 737 - People v. Frazer (1999)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Ex parte Garland · Davidson v. New Orleans · Ogden v. Saunders
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * this statute is aimed directly at the very right which the state has against the offender, the right to punish, at the only liability which the offender has incurred, and declares that this right and this liability are at an end. [at 209]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A right of action is a property right which may be sold and assigned. Therefore, after the bar has attached, an act of legislation which revives the right to sue, is an act to vest property in one at the expense of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute substantially imposing punishment for a previous act which, without the statute, would not be so punishable, is an ex post facto law, although it may not be included in the letter of Judge Chase's rules.”
1 later decision 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.