State v. Moyer’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2010
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Welty v. Ward · State v. Springer · State v. Lyon
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`An indictment cannot, except in cases where the law has specially authorized such proceeding, and in matters of form which are not matters of substance, be amended by the court without the concurrence of the grand jury, even with the consent of the accused.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Matter that is essential to be set forth or to show that an offense has been committed is matter of substance, and cannot be amended without the concurrence of the grand jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“well-recognized distinction between matters that are purely matters of form and matters that go to the substance of the indictment * * *.”
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.