Moore v. Ogilvie’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
626 federal appellate · 167 district · 226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,532 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Roe v. Wade (1973)
626 federal appellate · 167 district · 226 state decisions — followed in 31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · United States v. Classic · Williams v. Rhodes
Cited together with Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Williams v. Rhodes · Storer v. Brown · Roe v. Wade · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 1,532 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The idea that one group can be granted greater voting strength than another is hostile to the one man, one vote basis of our representative government.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All procedures used by a State as an integral part of the election process must pass muster against the charges of discrimination or of abridgement of the right to vote.””
9 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.