Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Adams v. Texas (1980), Allridge v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 116 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Jurek v. Texas
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prospective jurors shall be informed that a sentence of life imprisonment or death is mandatory on conviction of a capital felony. A prospective juror shall be disqualified from serving as a juror unless he states under oath that the mandatory penalty of death or imprisonment for life will not affect his deliberations on any issue of fact.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“incapable or unfit to serve on the jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) A person commits an offense if, in the course of committing theft as defined in Chapter 31 of this code and with intent to obtain or maintain control of the property, he: “(1) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; or “(2) intentionally or knowingly threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shippy v. State · White 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.