Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2025
2 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the theories of self-defense and diminished capacity are not mutually exclusive and could have been presented together.”
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.