Moulton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

cited by 32 later decisions

states following

July 1991

most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Nicholas v. State (1973), Warren v. State (1974)

31 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 Simmons v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California · Olson v. State · Baity 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

““ ‘A handwriting exemplar in contrast to the content of what is written, like the voice or body itself, is an identifying physical characteristic outside the protection of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Gilbert v. California, 388 U.S. 263 , 87 S.Ct. 1951 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1178 (1967); Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757 , 86 S.Ct. 1826 , 16 L.Ed.2d 908 (1966) and is outside the protection of Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of this state, Vernon’s Ann. St., Olson v. State, 484 S.W.2d 756 (Tex. Crim.App.1972).’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. McInturf v. State
““. . . [T]he legality of the search need not be considered when the defendant testifies to or otherwise produces evidence of the same facts, or if such facts are in the record without objection.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Nicholas v. State

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.