United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 1231 · 1996
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Morales-Fernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2005), United States v. Whren (1997)
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Soberon v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski · United States v. Bell · United States v. Saucedo · United States v. Ponce
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he mandate rule': where the appellate court has not specifically limited the scope of the remand, the district court generally has discretion to expand the resentencing beyond the sentencing error causing the reversal.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) a dramatic change in controlling legal authority; (2) significant new evidence that was not earlier obtainable through due diligence but has since come to light; or (3) that blatant error from the prior sentencing decision would result in serious injustice if uncorrected.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is a discretion-guiding rule subject to exception in the interests of justice.'”
6 later decisions 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.