Moffett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985)
69 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 Crist v. Bretz · 445 So. 2d 798 - Williams v. State · Young v. United States · 421 So. 2d 1216 - Laney v. State · Hall v. State
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he average juror will have a difficult enough time without the statement sitting in his lap keeping distinct in his mind that which he has heard as evidence and what he has been told may be considered for impeachment only. Many suggest it is folly to think juries can-or will even attempt to-keep this distinction in mind.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he prior inconsistent out-of-court statements made by one not a party may not be used as substantive evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[But impeachment] does not mean that the out-of-court statement became evidence on its merits or had any probative value... . The rule seems to be universal that the impeaching testimony does not establish or in any way tend to establish the truth of the matters contained in the out-of-court contradictory statement.”
4 later decisions 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.