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← 771 NE2D 46 - Moore v. State

Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
6
states following
June 2016
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Trop v. Dulles · Kemmler · State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “At the time of the offense, the statute, Indiana Code § 35-50-2-9 (Supp. 1979), provided in relevant part, ‘If the defendant was convicted of murder in a jury trial, the jury shall reconvene for the sentencing hearing; if the trial was to the court, or the judgment was entered on a guilty plea, the court alone shall conduct the sentencing hearing.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A trial court has discretionary power regarding the admission of evidence, and its decisions are reviewed only for an abuse of that discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “be performed in a manner that avoids unnecessary or wanton infliction of pain”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.