United States v. Musson’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 384 · 1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988), United States v. Nichols (1988)
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1963 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 853 (§ 413 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Fuentes v. Shevin · Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. · United States v. Crozier · United States v. Spilotro
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon application of the United States, the court may enter a restraining order or injunction, require the execution of a satisfactory performance bond, or take any other action to preserve the availability of property described in subsection (a) for forfeiture under this section- (A) upon the filing of an indictment or information charging a violation of section 1962 of this chapter and alleging that the property with respect to which the order is sought would, in the event of conviction, be subject to forfeiture under this section; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reliance of the district court upon the grand jury indictment in issuing a restraining order which restricted free alienation of the subject property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no fundamental defect in [a grand jury] determination which would impair its use to support [a] restraining order.”
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.