Moawad v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 850 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Bazrowx v. Scott (1998), Hudson v. Nabisco Brands, Inc. (1985)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Procunier v. Martinez · Thomas v. United States · Peary v. Connecticut
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless proper procedures have been followed, a claim of mail censorship could state a constitutional claim.... [H]is complaint of mail censorship, of guard harassment and his change of classification without due process require findings....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because Moawad's complaint, liberally construed, stated claims that were not addressed by the court below, we must send his case back to the district court for further proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] pro se complaint ... should not be dismissed unless it appears that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts which would entitle him to relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spotville v. Cain
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.