United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 479 · 1977
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably United States v. Wright (1987), United States v. McClure (1984)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 844
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · United States v. Hess · United States v. Burkhart
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he granting, or denial, of a motion for a bill of particulars is a matter lying within the sound discretion of the trial court, and its exercise of that discretion will not be grounds for reversal on appeal in the absence of an abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The sufficiency of an indictment [should] be determined on the basis of practical rather than technical consideration ... [H]air splitting is to be eschewed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“other equivalent procedure based on a finding of the rehabilitation of the person convicted.”
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.