moot
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 319 U.S. 41 - St. Pierre v. United States · 1943Most cited · 704 citing opinions
federal court jurisdiction
A federal court is without power to decide moot questions or to give advisory opinions which cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it.
How often courts cite the case defining “moot”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “moot” — 700 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.