Moody v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
204 federal appellate · 109 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 729 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2001 · most notably Perez v. Ledesma (1971), Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. (1972)
204 federal appellate · 109 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County · Phillips v. United States · Spielman Motor Sales Co. v. Dodge
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 729 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the requirement that the action seek to enjoin a state officer cannot be circumvented 'by joining, as nominal parties defendant, state officers whose action is not the effective means of the enforcement or execution of the challenged statute.' Wilentz v. Sovereign Camp, 306 U.S. 573 , 579-580, 59 S.Ct. 709, 83 L.Ed. 994.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"An interlocutory or permanent injunction restraining the enforcement, operation or execution of any State statute by restraining the action of any officer of such State in the enforcement or execution of such statute * * * shall not be granted by any district court or judge thereof upon the ground of unconstitutionality of such statute unless the application therefor is heard and determined by a district court of three judges under section 2284 of this title."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The crux of the business is procedural protection against an improvident state-wide doom by a federal court of a state’s legislative policy. This was the aim of Congress and this is the reconciling principle of the cases.””
2 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.