Commonwealth v. Moyer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
2
states following
October 1988
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stovall v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Linkletter v. Walker · Desist v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [i]n any criminal prosecution, the Commonwealth has an unshifting burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt all elements of the crime.”
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.