Moses v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 571 · 1897
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 14 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006 · most notably William Truax v. Mike Raich (1915), Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Kansas ex rel. Coleman (1910)
79 federal appellate · 14 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nash v. Towne · The United States v. Thomas Tingey · The United States v. Phineas Bradley · Dair v. United States
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The consideration or the condition of the bond must not be in violation of law; it must not run counter to any statute; it must not be either malum prohibitum or malum in se. Otherwise, and for all purposes of security, a bond may be valid, though no statute directs its delivery.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.