United States v. Samour’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 531 · 1993
Citation profile
42 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Puig-Infante (1994), United States v. Prince (2000)
42 federal appellate ·
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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Harris v. McRae · Crisp v. Rubin · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · United States v. Walton · United States v. Jackson
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(c) As used in this section'— ****** (3) the term 'transaction' includes a purchase, sale, loan, pledge, gift, transfer, delivery, or other disposition, and with respect to a financial institution includes a deposit, withdrawal, transfer between accounts, exchange of currency, loan, extension of credit, purchase or sale of any stock, bond, certificate of deposit, or other monetary instrument, use of a safe deposit box, or any other payment, transfer, or delivery by, through, or to a financial institution, by whatever means effected....” 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (c)(3).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a transaction which in any way or degree affects interstate of foreign commerce (i) involving the movement of funds by wire or other means or (ii) involving one or more monetary instruments....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely transporting cash does not meet the definition of 'financial transaction' for purposes of the money laundering statute.”
3 later decisions 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.