Moore v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2026 · most notably White v. Kentucky (2019), Fountain v. United States (2004)
52 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Ake v. Oklahoma · Atkins v. Virginia · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Ford v. Wainwright
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“...[I]n line with Hall , we require that courts continue the inquiry and consider other evidence of intellectual disability where an individual's IQ score, adjusted for the test's standard error, falls within the clinically established range for intellectual-functioning deficits.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“significant limitations in conceptual, social, or practical adaptive skills [are] not outweighed by the potential strengths in some adaptive skills”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[B]eing informed by the medical community does not demand adherence to everything stated in the latest medical guide. But neither does our precedent license disregard of current medical standards.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.