Moore v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 895 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Proffitt v. Florida · Scharffe v. Perkins · Godfrey v. Georgia · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Walton v. Arizona
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he standard applied to Moore in 1980 was modified substantially six years later by [State v. Palmer, 224 Neb. 282, 399 N.W.2d 706 (1986), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 872, 108 S.Ct. 206, 98 L.Ed.2d 157 (1987) ], and the changes found desirable by the Nebraska Supreme Court in Palmer then demonstrate that the standards applied to Moore were vague.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifested exceptional depravity by ordinary standards of morality and intelligence,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether Arizona's 'especially heinous, cruel or depraved' aggravating circumstance, as interpreted by the Arizona courts, fails to channel the sentencer's discretion as required by the Eighth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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