United States v. Cavalier’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 90 · 1994
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Prince (2000), United States v. Manarite (1995)
36 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Kolender v. Lawson · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Doerr v. Doerr · Martin v. Delaware · Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. Mellon Bank, N.A.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat the defendant (1) conducted or attempted to conduct a financial transaction, (2) which the defendant knew involved the proceeds of unlawful activity, (3) with the intent to promote or further unlawful activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“therefore reject[ed] the argument that [the defendant] did not cause to be conducted a financial transaction between Allstate and GMAC.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a case of a person simply using illegally obtained funds to purchase personal items.”
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.