Moore v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 1228 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Rank v. Nimmo (1982), Rosen v. Walters (1983)
20 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Perry v. Sindermann · Arnett v. Kennedy
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.
“the acts of the sovereign, state or federal, manifested in legislation, rules, or customs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he complaint, ... contains a prayer for damages which actual relocation neither will extinguish nor make moot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Nevada
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.