Moore v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 639 · 1978
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1995 · most notably Moore v. Duckworth (1979), Jacks v. Duckworth (1981)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Langley v. State · Vachon v. New Hampshire · Hill v. State · United States ex rel. Williams v. Brantley · Riggs 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1. Remedy-To Whom Available-Conditions. (a) any person who has been convicted of, or sentenced for, a crime by a court of this state, and who claims: # # * * * * (5) that his sentence has expired, his probation, parole or conditional release unlawfully revoked, or he is otherwise un lawfully held in custody or other restraint; # * * * * * may institute at any time a proceeding under this Rule to secure relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Gibson“only where a state court conviction is totally devoid of evidentiary support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Duckworth
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.