Moffett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1990
16 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 Brown v. State · McElroy v. State · Childs v. State · Carey v. State · Webber 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he question [in each of earlier cases discussed] was improper, not for excessive detail in describing the rumored event inquired about, but because the question, properly begun, went off-course before its completion by the use of other words in the middle of the question that had the effect of negating the unassertive “have you heard,” and replacing it with words asserting the matter as fact.” at p. 442.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sisson v. State“". . . [a]s part of its cross-examination, the State is permitted to ask the character witness if he has heard of a specific act of misconduct. However, the State may not ask whether the witness had personal knowledge of the act, nor may the question be framed so as to imply that the act has actually been committed. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pemberton 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.