United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 1105 · 1987
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Lender (1993), United States v. Crittendon (1989)
65 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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. § 1202
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Hensley · United States v. Bautista · United States v. Price
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an area's disposition toward criminal activity is an articulable fact'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'There is no reason why an officer, rightfully but forcibly confronting a person suspected of a serious crime, should have to ask one question and take the risk that the answer might be a bullet'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'insufficient to convert a Terry stop into an arrest.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.