Moore v. California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.3d 838 · 2002
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education (2005), Graham County Soil & Water Conservation District v. United States Ex Rel. Wilson (2005)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Clark County School District v. Breeden · Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r · William J. Ray v. William J. Henderson, Postmaster General · United States Hopper v. Anton · Huskey v. City of San Jose
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employee engages in protected activity where (1) the employee in good faith believes, and (2) a reasonable employee in the same or similar circumstances might believe, that the employer is possibly committing fraud against the government.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he plaintiff must be investigating matters which are calculated, or reasonably could lead, to a viable FCA action.” (citing Neal v. Honeywell Inc., 33 F.3d 860 , 864 (7th Cir.1994))). But see Moore v. Cal. Inst. of Tech. Jet Propulsion Lab., 275 F.3d 838 , 845 (9th Cir.2002) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]pecific awareness of the FCA is not required,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.