State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Zant v. Stephens (1983), Commonwealth v. Travaglia (1983)
26 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 Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · State v. Cherry · Stephens v. Zant · Houston v. State · Cozzolino 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury found that the murder was committed while the accused was engaged in committing one of the several felonies listed in T.C.A. § 39-2404(i)(7) [now, T.C.A., § 39-2-203(i)(7)] that of kidnapping. The evidence justifies the finding of the jury in that regard. However, the trial judge did not define for the jury the criminal offense of kidnapping. This was the only one of the listed felonies upon which the State relied. While the evidence clearly supports a finding that the accused did abduct the victim at gunpoint and executed him, proper procedure, in our opinion, requires that the trial judge provide the jury with the statutory definition of any felony listed in this code section upon which the State relies. Since in the present case the statutory requirements were obviously met, we would not necessarily reverse on this point alone. However, since a rehearing is required, we direct that the trial judge include in his instructions to the jury the statutory definition of any felony relied upon by the State as an aggravating circumstance. This practice should regularly be followed by trial judges in the sentencing phase where the provisions of this section are invoked to establish an aggravating circumstance.” 614 S.W.2d at 350-51 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“We have no way of knowing and cannot speculate whether the jury would have imposed the death penalty with one of the two aggravating circumstances withdrawn from their consideration and with the necessity of weighing the one remaining aggravating circumstance against the mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Terry
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.