No. 89-3769’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 177 Ill. 2d 314 - People v. $1,124,905 U.S. Currency (1997), United States v. All Assets and Equipment of West Side Building Corp Penny (1995)
22 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
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society · Charter Co. v. Certified Class in the Charter Securities Litigation · United States v. Three Hundred Sixty Four Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Dollars ($364,960.00) in United States Currency · United States v. Four Million, Two Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable ground for belief of guilt, supported by less than prima facie proof but more than mere suspicion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the burden of proof in a criminal trial differs from that involved in a forfeiture action. The government need not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a substantial connection exists between the forfeited property and the illegal activity;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The bank account bearing the name of Jones’s [the claimant’s] business was established soon after the first load of marihuana arrived; (2) the bank account, in which Jones deposited more than $315,000, primarily received cash deposits; (3) the bank account funds were used to purchase a luxury automobile for Jones’s nephew Scott, who was arrested and subsequently convicted for his involvement with the marijuana trafficking; (4) Jones purchased a luxury automobile and a $50,000 CD with cheeks from this account; (5) he purchased for cash $75,000 in assets over an eight-month period, despite tax returns showing that his adjusted gross income in 1985 was $39,191 and in 1986 was $42,-645; and (6) finally and most importantly, Jones was identified as a money man by two individuals involved with both loads of marijuana.”
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.