Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 753 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Fentress (1986), United States v. Good (1994)
28 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · Michel v. United States · Bell 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Special parole is a significant penalty ... Explanation of special parole in open court is therefore essential to comply with the Rule’s mandate that the defendant be informed of “the maximum possible penalty provided by law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the district court with directions, in its discretion, to reduce the prison sentence to 12 years or to set aside the plea and allow [Iaquinta] to plead again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the combined sentence of prison and parole will correspond to what [the defendant] claims he understood to be the maximum penalty,”
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.