United States v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.3d 609 · 2000
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Smith (2011), Ahearn v. Jackson Hospital Corp. (2003)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Wade · Hill v. Lockhart · Escobedo v. Illinois · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Supreme Court's holding that the Sixth Amendment right attaches only `at or after the initiation of judicial criminal proceedings--whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment,' is a bright line test; it is a mandate that `the Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not attach until after the initiation of formal charges.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In light of the Supreme Court's stance on this issue, it is beyond our reach to modify this rule, even in this case where the facts so clearly demonstrate that the rights protected by the Sixth Amendment are endangered. Although [Defendant] was faced with an expert prosecutorial adversary, offering him a plea bargain which he needed legal expertise to evaluate and which would have constituted an agreement if accepted by him despite the lack of formal charges, and although by offering the specific deal the Assistant United States Attorney was committing himself to proceed with prosecution, we must uphold the narrow test of the Supreme Court. See Hutto v. Davis , 454 U.S. 370 , 375 [ 102 S.Ct. 703 , 70 L.Ed.2d 556 ] (1982) ("But unless we wish anarchy to prevail within the federal judicial system, a precedent of this Court must be followed by the lower federal courts no matter how misguided the judges of those courts may think it to be.").”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Court has extended the right in new contexts that present the same dangers that gave rise to the right originally, those dangers being confrontation with the procedural system, the expert prosecutor, or both. In the plea bargaining context, the accused is presented with both of these dangers, and therefore those persons who enter the plea bargaining process before formal charges have been filed should have the protection of the Sixth Amendment.... [W]hen the government begins plea negotiations with a citizen who has not been formally charged, he is just as surely faced with the “prosecutorial forces of organized society” as the defendant who has been formally introduced into the system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.