Moffett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2026
4 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Jacobs v. State · Junior v. Warden, Nevada State Prison · Darnell v. State · State v. Verganadis · Hirshberg v. Strauss
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prove an attempt to commit a crime, the prosecution must establish (1) the intent to commit the crime; (2) performance of some act towards its commission; and (3) failure to consummate its commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act done with the intent to commit a crime, and tending but failing to accomplish it, is an attempt to commit that crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrod v. State
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.