No. 00-7059’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2025
5 district · 8 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 Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Austin v. United States · English v. General Electric Co. · United States v. Bajakajian · United States v. Eight Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifty Dollars
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compare the amount of the forfeiture to the gravity of the defendant's offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) Congress’s judgment about the appropriate punishment for the defendant’s offense, as reflected in the maximum statutory fíne for the counts of conviction and the fines set out in the Sentencing Guidelines; (ii) whether the defendant falls into the class of persons at which the criminal statute is principally directed; (iii) the gravity of the defendant’s offense and the extent of his criminal activity; (iv) any related illegal activities; (v) the harm caused to other parties; (vi) the general use of the forfeited property; (vii) any previously imposed federal sanctions; .(viii) the benefit reaped by the defendant as a result of his criminal conduct; (ix) the value of the property; and (x) the property’s connection to the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“tak[e] into account the extent of both the claimant’s and the property’s role in the offense, the nature and scope of the illegal operation at issue, the personal benefit reaped by the claimant, the value of any contraband involved in the offense, and the maximum sanction Congress has authorized for the offense.”
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.