No. 01-55466’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 213 W. Va. 80 - Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003), 287 F. Supp. 2d 45 - United States v. Real Property Identified As: Parcel XXXXX-XXXR (2003)
2 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · United States v. $19191000 in US Currency R · Vereda, Ltda. v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any forfeiture proceeding commenced on or after [August 23, 2000],”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress manifested a clear intent to apply CAFRA's heightened burden of proof only to judicial forfeiture proceedings in which the government's complaint was filed on or after August 23, 2000. Congress did not intend to apply the new law to cases filed before but pending on the effective date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 02-1925 · No. 02-1925“CAFRA transferred the burden of proof from the claimant to the government and required the government to establish forfeiture by a preponderance of the evidence rather than by the lower probable cause standard....”
2 later decisions 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.