State v. . Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2017
8 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hese principles are dear to every [citizen]; they are his shield and buckler against wrong and oppression, and lie at the foundation of civil liberty; they are declared to be [rights] of the citizens of North Carolina, and ought to be vigilantly guarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Frazier“Every [citizen] ... has a right to the decision of twenty-four of his fellow-citizens upon the question of his guilt; first, by a grand jury, and secondly, by a petty jury of good and lawful [citizens].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Frazier
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.