Moody v. Wickard’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 801 · 1943
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1971 · most notably United States v. Dow (1958), United States v. 3,317.39 Acres of Land, More or Less, In Jefferson County (1971)
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 16 U.S.C. § 515 · 16 U.S.C. § 517A · 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 40 U.S.C. § 3113 · 40 U.S.C. § 3114 (Declaration of Taking Act)
Relies on United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Danforth v. United States · Jacobs v. United States · Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kan Ry Co · Hurley v. Kincaid
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Enough has been said, we think, to show that the United States were free to abandon the condemnation proceeding at any time before payment of the award and transfer of title, that they took no title until payment, that the possession of the land by the United States did not make these rules inapplicable, and therefore that the District Court in North Carolina had no authority to enter a personal judgment against the United States.””
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.