United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 310 · 1992
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Sims (1992), United States v. Parra (1993)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Ball v. United States · GLK, Inc. 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we conclude that Moore may only be convicted and sentenced for one violation of § 924(c), we do not agree with Moore’s contention that we should direct dismissal of Count 4 and vacation of the heavier sentence on that machine gun count.... We feel that the statute here clearly requires the heavier penalty because of the machine gun’s use, and that it would be contrary to the intent of Congress to dismiss the more serious charge and penalty. Moore’s argument that there was greater evidentiary support for Count 2, dealing with the other firearms, than for Count 4, is unpersuasive because we have determined that there was sufficient evidence to support the verdicts of guilty on both counts.... Thus, in accord with the evident intent of Congress to punish defendants using machine guns in connection with crimes of violence or drug trafficking offenses more severely than those using only handguns, we feel that the conviction to be entered should be under Count 4, along with the mandatory minimum ten-year sentence therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“potential adverse collateral consequences [arising from separate convictions] that may not be ignored.”
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.