Moore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 439 · 1979
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), United States v. Wright (2004)
85 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 5604 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Quercia v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · Webb v. Texas · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Drews v. Maryland
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only when the judge's conduct strays from neutrality is the defendant thereby denied a constitutionally fair trial.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The defendant] claims only that the mere fact of judicial questioning to this extent tends to focus the jury’s attention on the defendant’s testimony and indicates some question of credibility in the judge’s mind. To embrace such a suggestion would in effect amount to adoption of a per se rule limiting judicial questioning to a specific number of questions, or to a certain proportion of the sum of inquiries made by defense counsel and prosecution; such a rule is inconsistent with the common law prerogatives of the trial judge secured by the Constitution to federal courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If issues are raised and considered on direct appeal, a defendant is thereafter precluded from urging the same issues in a later collateral attack.”
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.