Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2007
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Thornhill v. Alabama · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · Reynolds v. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person, either verbally or by written or printed communication, maliciously threaten to accuse another of a crime, offense, or immoral act, or to do any injury to the person, reputation or property of another, with intent thereby to extort any money, property, or pecuniary advantage whatever, or to compel the person so threatened to do any act against his will, he shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two (2) years nor more than five (5) years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Newell“secure in the knowledge that no retribution will be forthcoming under the guise of constitutional protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson“to pressure the store into contributing money to his cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson
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.