Small v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1334 · 1998
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Jones v. Flowers (2006), United States v. Ritchie (2003)
26 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Applies 19 U.S.C. § 1607 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1608 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1609 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Robinson v. Hanrahan · Sarit v. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration · Torres v. $3625680 US Currency · Boero v. Drug Enforcement Administration
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reasonable person presented with a letter that has been returned to sender will ordinarily attempt to resend it if it is practicable to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the United States failed to record the date on which it received the letter [notifying claimant of forfeiture] back; information on that issue is within the government's exclusive control, and so the government... must bear the bur den of this gap in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the government knows (or can easily ascertain) where a person may be found, it must direct its notice there, and not to some other address where the designee formerly resided”
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.