No. 78-1106’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2021
2 district · 7 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
Relies on Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. · Arnett v. Kennedy · United States v. One Clipper Bow Ketch Nisku · United States v. One 1971 Porsche Coupe Automobile, Vehicle Identification Number 9111100355 · United States v. One 1957 Oldsmobile Automobile
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government need show only that there was probable cause that one of the statutes had been violated. (citation omitted). The 'sweeping statutory language' requires forfeiture where any contraband has been physically present in the conveyance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 83-5575
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.