Moore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), Partin v. Commonwealth (1996)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Faretta v. California · Davis v. Alaska · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Harris
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . due regard to the proprieties of his office and to see that the legal rights of the accused, as well as those of the Commonwealth, are protected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a fundamental precept that a prosecutor must conduct himself with ". . . due regard to the proprieties of his office and to see that the legal rights of the accused, as well as those of the Commonwealth, are protected." (citations omitted) The principles under which the conduct of a prosecuting attorney is judged are well stated in Niemeyer v. Commonwealth, Ky., 533 S.W.2d 218, 222 (1976): One of the finest offices the public can give to a member of the legal profession in this state is that of Commonwealth's Attorney. Its very status becomes a mantle of power and respect to the wearer. Though few are apt to wear it lightly, some forget, or apparently never learn, to wear it humbly. No one except for the judge himself is under a stricter obligation to see that every defendant receives a fair trial, a trial in accordance with the law, which means the law as laid down by the duly constituted authorities, and not as the prosecuting attorney may think it ought to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““the murder of the victim clearly exceeds the deprivation of liberty ordinarily incident to a robbery.””
1 later decision 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.