Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Young (1985), Lawrence Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Chater (1996)
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly relied on the hearsay declaration”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only competent evidence of Moore's possession of the narcotics was his proximity to them in an apartment in which another person was also present and of which he was not shown to be the tenant or even a regular resident”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether or not the evidence of proximity alone, when viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, could suffice to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Moore was in possession of the heroin”
1 later decision 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.