Moore v. Dempsey’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 86 · 1923
Citation profile
345 federal appellate · 77 district · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,076 later decisions (189 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Johnson v. Zerbst (1938), Wainwright v. Sykes (1977)
345 federal appellate · 77 district · 140 state decisions — followed in 29 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.
Relationships
Relies on Royall · Frank v. Mangum · Covell v. Heyman · Ex Parte Tyler
Cited together with Frank v. Mangum · Mooney v. Holohan · Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Fay v. Noia
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 1,076 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel, jury and judge were swept to the fatal end by an irresistible wave of public passion,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * We shall not say more concerning the corrective process afforded to the petitioners than that it does not seem to us sufficient to allow a Judge of the United States to escape the duty of examining the facts for himself when if true as alleged they make the trial absolutely void.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“what we have to deal with is not the petitioner['s] innocence or guilt but solely the question whether [his] constitutional rights have been preserved.”
6 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.