Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 179 · 1978
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably United States v. Hearst (1980), United States v. Baylin (1982)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Blackledge v. Allison · Townsend v. Burke · Gore 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This case is controlled not by rules of procedure, but rather by principles of fairness articulated in cases dealing with the due process limitation on the use by a sentencing judge of false or unreliable data about a defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no limitation ... on the information concerning the background, character and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“abiding concern about the use by a trial judge of material derived from a [presentence report] is that it may contain false or unreliable information,”
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.