In re Moorhead’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2016
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Estate of Thomas Mall Inc 90-3691 v. Territorial Court of Virgin Islands 90-3649 · 196 F. Supp. 691 - Niklaus v. Simmons · Homer v. Lorillard · 35 F. Supp. 815 - Gillson v. Vendome Petroleum Corporation · 765 F. Supp. 263 - Virgin Islands Bar Ass'n, Ethics & Grievance Committee v. Boyd-Richards
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rules governing the practice and procedure of the courts established by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and duties of the judges and officers thereof ... shall be governed by local law or the rules promulgated by those courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Dowdye · Smith v. Magras“[t]he district court has jurisdiction over the admission of attorneys at law to practice in the courts of the Territory and over the discipline of persons so admitted and may make rules and regulations governing the practice of law in the Territory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““... Provided, that the legislative assembly may provide for the organization and conduct of a Superior Court of the Virgin Islands and may transfer from the District Court to such Superior Court jurisdiction over any or all causes other than those arising under the laws of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Dowdye
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.