540 So. 2d 1313 - Moffett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2013
18 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 373 So. 2d 1042 - Gandy v. State · 472 So. 2d 363 - Lancaster v. State · 385 So. 2d 1298 - Norman v. State · Gibson v. State · 525 So. 2d 1312 - Douglas 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the request of a party the court shall order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses, and it may make the order of its own motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sandra Spears has been charged in this case with the offense of aggravated assault. If you find from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that: 1. Sandra Spears, on or about August 4,1997 in Quitman County; 2. accidentally caused serious bodily injury to Martha Lockhart; then you shall find the Defendant not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to discourage and expose falsification, inaccuracy, and collusion in witnesses' testimony.”
1 later decision 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.