United States v. Moriarty’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 486 · 1974
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably United States v. Uptain (1976), United States v. Daniels (1978)
27 federal appellate · 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Neufield v. United States · United States v. Bailey · United States v. Nazzaro · Essary v. Lowden
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]earsay evidence is admissible to prove predisposition when an accused interposes the defense of entrapment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is generally left to the sound discretion of the trial court.”
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.