United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
54 F.3d 92 · 1995
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Betancourt (2005), United States v. Payne (1995)
58 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Washington v. Davis · Bolling v. Sharpe · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conviction must stand if any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may appeal a district court's determination that it lacked authority to depart from the guidelines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the burgeoning crack epidemic was a serious problem that had to be addressed quickly by harsh penalties”
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.