Moore v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 129 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Robinson (2005), Delap v. Dugger (1989)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Edwards v. Arizona · Townsend v. Sain · Colorado v. Connelly
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a suspect clearly, of his own volition, changes his mind about wanting counsel, we see nothing ... to require that the withdrawn request for counsel continue in force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Never mind, I'll finish telling you right now.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must take into account [the defendant’s] mental limitations, to determine whether through susceptibility to surrounding pressures or inability to comprehend the circumstances, the confession was not a product of his own free will, mental deficiencies of the defendant, by themselves, are not sufficient to render a confession involuntary. To establish that his confession was involuntary, [the defendant] must also establish police coercion.”
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.