No. 85-1537ea’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 683 F. Supp. 783 - United States v. One Single Family Residence Located at 2901 S.W. 118th Court (1988), United States v. $785000 in US Currency S (1993)
1 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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 J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Co. v. United States · Dobbins's Distillery v. United States · General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United States · United States v. One 1975 Ford F100 Pickup Truck SN F10YUV83579 · United States v. One 1973 Buick Riviera 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The following shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States and no property right shall exit in them: (4) All conveyances, including aircraft, vehicles, or vessels, which are used, or are intended for use, to transport, or in any manner to facilitate the transportation, sale, receipt, possession or concealment of [contraband.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once probable cause is established, `the burden shifts to the claimant to demonstrate that by a preponderance of the evidence that the property is not subject to forfeiture, or that a defense to forfeiture applies.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government bears the burden of going forward in a forfeiture proceeding, but it must establish only that reasonable grounds exist to believe that the [property was] used or intended to be used for prohibited purposes.”
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.