United States’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.3d 1187 · 2004
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Motor Vehicle Casualty Co. v. Thorpe Insulation Co. (2012), United States v. $133,420.00 in United States Currency (2012)
6 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Pfingston v. Ronan Engineering Co. · United States v. One Lincoln Navigator 1998 · United States v. Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($15,500.00) United States Currency · United States v. Real Property
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a claimant fails to establish the threshold requirement of standing, the claimant's challenges to the merits of the forfeiture cannot be reached”
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.