430 F. Supp. 160 - Tom v. Twomey’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1990
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1955
Relies on Carnegie Steel Company v. Cambria Iron Company · Local 167 of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen Helpers of America v. United States · Ex Parte Tyler · Dodge v. United States · Lamb v. Cramer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The forfeiture of any property used in violation of 18 USC 1955(a) is governed by the custom laws. 18 USC 1955(d). In the law of customs, if an action in rem is brought to forfeit a vehicle, the owner on being notified of the proceeding . is required to file a timely answer to the government’s complaint, under oath. . The answer should set out clearly and explicitly the facts relied on . And the failure to deny by answer is an admission.”
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.