Moot case
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 218 U.S. 487 - Richardson v. McChesney · 1910Most cited · 142 citing opinions
no judicial action available
The duty of the court is limited to the decision of actual pending controversies, and it should not pronounce judgment upon abstract questions, however such opinion might influence future action in like circumstances.
How often courts cite the case defining “Moot case”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Moot case” — 142 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.