United States v. "Monkey"’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 1007 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably United States v. Banco Cafetero Panama (1986), United States v. Nichols (1988)
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 19 U.S.C. § 1595A (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Stowell · United States v. Stauffer Chemical Co. · Simopoulos v. Virginia
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the seizure was illegal, it would not bar the government’s right to claim the vehicle through forfeiture proceedings. Improper seizure does not jeopardize the government’s right to secure forfeiture if the probable cause to seize the vehicle can be supported with untainted evidence ... [A]n object illegally seized cannot in any way be used either as evidence or as the basis for jurisdiction. Therefore, evidence derived from a search in violation of the fourth amendment must be excluded at a forfeiture proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The following shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States and no property right shall exist in them: (6) All moneys, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for a controlled substance in violation of this subchapter, all proceeds traceable to such an exchange, and all moneys, negotiable instruments, and securities used or intended to be used to facilitate any violation of this subchapter....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once the government files a libel of forfeiture, the validity of a pre-libel [action] is not necessary to sustain the proceeding. The issue becomes whether there is probable cause to believe that the [money] was being used illegally. Whether the government had probable cause when it seized the [money] affects only the admissibility of evidence obtained through the seizure.... The criminal conviction has an independent legal effect, untainted by the seizure.”
1 later decision 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.