United States v. Oleson’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 381 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Betancourt (2005), United States v. Prince (2000)
23 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986)
Relies on Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Crisp v. Rubin · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · Luster v. Cushman · United States v. Walton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely transporting cash does not meet the definition of a 'financial transaction' for purposes of the money laundering statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nowhere, however, did the Samour panel purport to hold that delivery of United States currency is not a 'transaction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A point of law merely assumed in an opinion, not discussed, is not authoritative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.