United States v. One Assortment of Eighty-Nine Firearms & Six Hundred & Thirty-Eight Rounds of Ammunition’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 24 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2017
7 federal appellate · 3 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. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5872 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. $38,000.00 in United States Currency · United States v. United States Currency in the Amount of $2,857.00 · United States v. Yukon Delta Houseboat · United States v. Beechcraft Queen Airplane Serial Number LD-24
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he claimant of property that is the subject of an action in rem shall file a claim within 10 days after process has been executed, or within' such additional time as may be allowed by the court, and shall serve an answer within 20 days after the filing of the claim____”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In actions in rem the complaint shall be verified on oath or solemn affirmation. It shall describe with reasonable particularity the property that is the subject of the action and state that it is within the district or will be during the pendency of the action. In actions for the enforcement of forfeitures for violation of any statute of the United States the complaint shall state the place of seizure and whether it was on land or on navigable waters, and shall contain such allegations as may be required by the statute pursuant to which the action is brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(i) a person who asserts an interest in or right against the property that is the subject of the action must file a verified statement identifying the interest or right; (A) within 30 days after the earlier of (1) the date of service of the Government’s complaint or (2) completed publication of notice under Rule C(4), or (B) within the time that the court allows. (in) a person who files a statement of interest in or right against the property must serve an answer within 20 days after filing the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.