Mark Milton Moore v. W. J. Estelle, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 56 · 1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Davis v. Georgia · Burns v. Estelle · Burns v. Estelle
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether the composition of the jury panel as a whole could possibly have been affected by the trial court's [putative] error.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“countenance what amounts to an attempt to exercise retroactively and by affidavit in defense of a collateral attack peremptory challenges reserved at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gray v. Mississippi“know that [he] would ever feel good about [imposing the death penalty]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Francis
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.