United States v. Parcel of Land & Residence Located thereon at 5 Bell Rock Road, Freetown, Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 605 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Ruiz Rivera v. Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC (2008), United States v. Schaefer (1996)
31 federal appellate · 11 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 19 U.S.C. § 1615 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Franks v. Delaware · Montana v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The relevant statutory provisions permit the federal government to obtain this property through forfeiture if the government shows probable cause to believe that the property was ‘used to facilitate the commission of a serious drug crime, unless the owners then show (by a preponderance of the evidence) either (1) that the property was not used in this way or (2) that any such use was without the owners’ ‘knowledge or consent’ ” (emphasis in the original).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court has substantial discretion in deciding whether to reopen the proceedings in order to allow the unsuccessful party to introduce new material or argue a new theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fragoso v. Lopez“[S]ummary judgment is precluded if there is a dispute over facts that might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law[.]”
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.