Moody v. Daggett’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
571 federal appellate · 244 district · 396 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,978 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hewitt v. Helms (1983), Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979)
571 federal appellate · 244 district · 396 state decisions — followed in 39 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
reviewedSmall v. Britton (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Barker v. Wingo · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · United States v. Marion
Cited together with Morrissey v. Brewer · Meachum v. Fano · Wolff v. McDonnell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Montanye v. Haymes
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 1,978 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no legitimate statutory or constitutional entitlement sufficient to invoke due process”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“execution of the warrant and custody under that warrant”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A detainer in this (federal-federal) context is an internal administrative mechanism to assure that an inmate subject to an unexpired term of confinement will not be released from custody until the jurisdiction asserting parole violation has had an opportunity to act . . . . When two autonomous jurisdictions are involved, as for example when a federal detainer is placed against an inmate of a state institution, a detainer is a matter of comity.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.