Kenneth B. Moffett v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 496 · 1975
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Thomas A. Warren, John L. Warren, Jr., Des. E. Schick and David Defina (1978), United States v. Williams (1980)
23 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consent to a search is not to be lightly inferred, but should be shown by clear and convincing evidence.”
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.