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Moore v. City of East Cleveland’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

3,560
cited by 3,560 later decisions
141
cited 141 times by the Supreme Court
47
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

840 federal appellate · 278 district · 1,135 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 3,560 later decisions (141 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), Santosky v. Kramer (1982)

840 federal appellate · 278 district · 1,135 state decisions — followed in 47 states

1.1k0197719801990200020102020decided

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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Younger v. Harris · Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis · Stanley v. Illinois

Cited together with Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Roe v. Wade

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 3,560 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition.”
    78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Bowen v. Gilliard · Christy Et Al. v. Lujan, Secretary of the Interior, Et Al.
  2. “there is reason for concern lest the only limits to ... judicial intervention become the predelections of those who happen at the time to be [m]embers of this Court.”
    30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Regents of the University of Michigan v. Ewing · Michael v. Gerald D
  3. “Ours is by no means a tradition limited to respect for the bonds uniting the members of the nuclear family.”
    25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Hodgson v. Minnesota · Ismet Yazkurt v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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.