United States v. One 1985 Mercedes’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 415 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. Armstrong (1995), United States v. Real Property Located at Incline Village, Brian J. Degen and Karyn Degen, Claimants-Appellants (1995)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
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 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Boyd v. United States · Heckler v. Chaney
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both 'that others similarly situated have not been prosecuted and that the allegedly discriminatory prosecution ... was based on an impermissible motive.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“issue to be determined is whether the seized property is connected with illicit drug activity. The owner-claimant is neither defendant nor plaintiff, but an intervenor who seeks to defend his or her right to the property against the government's claim. Indeed, the guilt or innocence of the owner-claimant is largely irrelevant.... The owner-claimant thus stands in an essentially civil litigation position in the civil forfeiture proceeding. 23 Id. at 419. When the issue is forfeiture of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a civil forfeiture proceeding, due process does not require an immediate post-deprivation hearing, at least where judicial review, of the forfeiture is available within a reasonable time. Civil due process in forfeiture cases requires little more than forfeiture proceedings be commenced without unreasonable delay.”
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.