Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 487 · 1919
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1984 · most notably Federal Security Adm'r v. Quaker Oats Co (1943), Panella v. United States (1954)
22 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on United States v. Temple · Crescent Milling Co. v. H. N. Strait Manufacturing Co.
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.
“The benefits of the provisions of this section shall not inure to any patentee who, when he makes such claim, is in the employment or service of the Government of the United States, or the assignee of any such patentee. This section shall not apply to any device discovered, or invented by such employee during the time of his employment or service. [Italics supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his section shall not confer a right of action on any patentee who, when he makes * * * a claim [for compensation], is in the employment or service of the United States, * * * and shall not apply to any device discovered or invented by an employee during the time of such employment or service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“3 And the Report makes it clear that the amendment was specifically designed to permit suits against the United States in the Court of Claims:”
1 later decision 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.