United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 76 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably State v. Waddy (1992), State v. Atwood (1992)
20 federal appellate · 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 5601
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Leary v. United States · Estelle v. Williams
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We simply cannot say with substantial assurance that for purposes of proving the transportation of a kidnapping victim in interstate or foreign commerce such transportation is more likely than not to have occurred whenever the victim is not released within 24 hours of his disappearance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Atwood“a vegetarian sect who eat no eggs or meat and do not cut or wash their hair, but leave it in “dreadlocks,” United States v. Moore, 571 F.2d 76 f.2 (2nd Cir. 1978);”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We find nothing unduly suggestive in these identifications and conclude that the likelihood of irreparable misidentification was slight, if not nonexistent.”
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.