United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 1068 · 1975
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Ponte v. Real (1985), United States v. Whitten (1983)
137 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Government can be protected from any significant, unnecessary impairment of . . . secrecy, yet the defendant can be saved from what could be serious police misconduct.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The general rule concerning admissions by silence or acquiescence is well established. When an accusatory statement is made in the defendant’s presence and hearing, and he understands and has an opportunity to deny it, the statement and his failure to deny are admissible against him.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing more than [a] casual admission of culpability to someone he had individually decided to trust”
3 later decisions 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.