Moskal v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
683 federal appellate · 54 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,437 later decisions (80 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. (1991), Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995)
683 federal appellate · 54 district · 152 state decisions — followed in 21 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
reviewedUnited States v. Davis (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Morissette v. United States · United States v. Turkette · United States v. Bass · Richards v. United States
Cited together with Bifulco v. United States · United States v. Bass · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Chapman v. United States · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc.
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 1,437 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have always reserved lenity for those situations in which a reasonable doubt persists about a statute's intended scope even after resort to the language and structure, legislative history, and motivating policies of the statute.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the language and structure, legislative history, and motivating policies”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“give effect, if possible, to every clause and word of a statute.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.