Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

184 federal appellate · 34 district · 34 state decisions

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 729 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom such property has been entrusted, or into whose hands it has lawfully come.”

   30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Davila · Littleton Transamerica Commercial Finance Corporation v. Littleton

2. “Embezzlement is the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom such property has been entrusted, or into whose hands it has lawfully come. It differs from larceny in the fact that the original taking of the property was lawful, or with the consent of the owner, while in larceny the felonious intent must have existed at the time of the taking.”

   12 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Smith · United States v. Allen

3. “If the words charging the defendant with being an employee of the post office be material, then it is clear... that it should be averred that the money embezzled came into his possession by virtue of such employment. Unless this be so, the allegation of employment is meaningless and might even be misleading, since the defendant might be held for property received in a wholly different capacity— such, for instance, as a simple bailee of the government.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 537 F. Supp. 789 - United States v. Rippon