No 98-1467’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Real Property & Improvements Commonly Known as 5444 Spruce Street (2003), MacLean v. State Board of Retirement (2000)
5 district · 6 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 McNally v. United States · Austin v. United States · Ratzlaf et Ux United States · United States v. Ursery · United States v. Bajakajian
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(g) Proportionality— (1) The claimant under subsection (a)(4) may petition the court to determine whether the forfeiture was constitutionally excessive (2) In making the determination, the court shall compare the forfeiture to the gravity of the offense giving rise to the forfeiture. (3) The claimant shall have the burden of establishing that the forfeiture is grossly disproportional by a preponderance of the evidence at a hearing conducted by the court without a jury. (4) If the court finds that the forfeiture is grossly disproportional to the offense it shall reduce or eliminate the forfeiture as necessary to avoid a violation of the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a perilous course, at odds with the Supreme Court’s repeated admonition that statutory construction begins with examining the language of the statute, and that when the language is clear, the judicial inquiry “in all but the most extraordinary circumstance, is finished.” 213 F.3d at 810 , citing Estate of Cowart v. Nicklos Drilling Co., 505 U.S. 469, 475 , 112 S.Ct. 2589 , 120 L.Ed.2d 379 (1992).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Failure to report his currency affected only one party, the Government, and in a relatively minor way. There was no fraud on the United States, and respondent caused no loss to the public fisc. Had his crime gone undetected, the Government would have been deprived only of the information that $357,144 had left the country.”
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.