Libretti v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
399 federal appellate · 51 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 872 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Padilla v. Kentucky (2010), United States v. Gaskin (2004)
399 federal appellate · 51 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Libretti (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · McCarthy v. United States · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Gaudin
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 872 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, as the result of [the violation of conviction]; (2) any of the person’s property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to facilitate the commission of, such violation; and (3) in the case of a person convicted of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise ..., in addition ... any of his interest in, claims against, and property or contractual rights affording a source of control over, the continuing criminal enterprise.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an aspect of punishment imposed following conviction of a substantive offense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]orfeiture is an element of the sentence imposed following conviction,”
8 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.