No. 92-3709’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Welch v. Helvering · Austin v. United States · United States v. Sampson · United States v. A Parcel of Land Buildings Appurtenances and Improvements Known As 92 Buena Vista Avenue Rumson New Jersey · United States v. One 1974 Cadillac Eldorado Sedan, Serial No. 6L47S4Q407966
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The obvious purpose of the statute read as a whole is to deprive drug traffickers of the principal tools of their trade, which include the drugs themselves, the equipment and raw materials used for their manufacture, the firearms used to enforce contracts in an illegal business, the premises used for making and selling drugs — and the vehicles, boats, and aircraft that the traffickers use in their business.”
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.