United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 760 · 1877
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 32 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 345 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994)
111 federal appellate · 32 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 United States v. Hartwell · The United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina · United States v. Babbit
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 345 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The construction given to a statute by those charged with the duty of executing it is always entitled to the most respectful consideration, and ought not to be overruled without cogent reasons. * * * The officers concerned are usually able men, and masters of the subject. Not unfrequently they are the draftsmen of the laws they are afterward called upon to interpret.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The place of passed assistant-surgeon is an office, and the notification by the Secretary of the Navy was a valid appointment to it.”
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.