United States v. Moree’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 1329 · 1990
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Morrill (1993), United States v. Peters (1992)
68 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Western District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Russell v. United States · Santoni 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extra measure of criminal depravity which § 3A1.1 intends to more severely punish.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the offense was unusually vulnerable due to age, physical or mental condition, or that a victim was otherwise particularly susceptible to the criminal conduct, increase by 2 levels.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“fix” the case of a Mississippi highway commissioner indicted on eleven counts of extortion, bribery and tax evasion. See id. at 1331 . The court below found that the commissioner was a vulnerable victim because his indictment rendered him particularly suscep-tibie to the defendant’s criminal conduct. See id. at 1335-36 . In reversing the district court’s application, the Fifth Circuit held that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.