State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2001
15 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Harriss · Smith v. Goguen · Burns v. Alcala · Hibbing Education Ass'n v. Public Employment Relations Board
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“renders the statute unconstitutional, we are guided by the well-settled rule that a statute, if it can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction, must be given that construction .... Words of a statute are to be given their ordinary meaning in the absence of persuasive reasons to the contrary. 58 State v. Moore, 431 N.W.2d 565, 567-68 (Minn. Ct. App. 1988) (relying on United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612 , 618 (1954); Burns v. Alcala, 420 U.S. 575 , 580-81 (1975)). Moreover, it is well established that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocain-ized coca leaves or extractions which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell“the chief active ingredient ... the predominating substance ... left as a residue on refining.... The American Heritage Dictionary defines”
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.