Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
195 federal appellate · 53 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 662 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Boyle v. United States (2009), Florida Department of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc. (2008)
195 federal appellate · 53 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 14 U.S.C. § 89 · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 18 U.S.C. § 981 (§ 1366 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 19 U.S.C. § 1499 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1595A (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1600 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Dalehite v. United States · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · United States v. Menasche
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 662 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the property was seized for the purpose of forfeiture under any provision of Federal law providing for the forfeiture of property other than as a sentence imposed upon conviction of a criminal offense; (2) the interest of the claimant was not forfeited; (3) the interest of the claimant was not remitted or mitigated (if the property was subject to forfeiture); and (4) the claimant was not convicted of a crime for which the interest of the claimant in the property was subject to forfeiture under a Federal criminal forfeiture law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Read naturally, the word 'any' has an expansive meaning, that is, 'one or some indiscriminately of whatever kind.' " (citation omitted) ). Therefore, § 101(a)(13)(B) instructs that a service member may be called to active duty "in support of a contingency operation”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not at liberty to rewrite [a] statute to reflect a meaning [it] deem[s] more desirable. Instead, [courts] must give effect to the text Congress enacted.”
5 later decisions 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.