United States v. Three Hundred Sixty Four Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Dollars ($364,960.00) in United States Currency’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 319 · 1981
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 11 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Four Parcels of Real Property in Greene & Tuscaloosa Counties (1991), United States v. Banco Cafetero Panama (1986)
106 federal appellate · 11 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Beck v. State of Ohio · Holland v. United States · Rideout v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable ground for belief of guilt, supported by less than prima facie proof but more than mere suspicion.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“probable cause for belief that a substantial connection exists between the property to be forfeited and the criminal activity defined by the statute.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ll moneys ... furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for a controlled substance....”
5 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.