United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 360 · 1978
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably United States v. Matra (1988), United States v. Stewart (1985)
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Simpson v. United States · United States v. Brashier · United States v. Hendrix
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he probably would not have sallied forth.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hav[ing] a gun in his possession when he commits an entirely unrelated offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as part of a tight security operation to protect large quantities of cocaine and hence to commit the felony of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it.”
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.