State v. Moreno’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably State v. Rhode (1999), State v. Vance (1979)
2 federal appellate · 125 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 38 Ala. App. 573 - Schenher v. State · 164 Tex. Crim. 226 - Pelham v. State · Peachie v. State · State v. Cassady · People v. Salas
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the amount of a narcotic is so small as to require a chemical analysis to detect its presence, the quantity is sufficient if usable under the known practices of narcotic addicts. We hold that only in those cases where the amount is incapable of being put to any effective use will the evidence be insufficient to support a conviction.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage““A motion to reopen a case for the purpose of introducing further evidence in the cause is addressed to the sound discretion of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.