No. 89-2910’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “reasonable grounds for believing that the house was used for illegal purposes.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. a Parcel of Land in City of Lucedale · U.S. v. Land, Property Currently Recorded in Name of Neff

2. “[N]o property shall be forfeited under this paragraph, to the extent of an interest of an owner, by reason of any act or omission established by that owner to have been committed or omitted without the knowledge or consent of that owner.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Forfeiture, Stop Six Center · U.S. v. Land, Property Currently Recorded in Name of Neff

3. “To effectively refute the government’s proof, Roberts may not rest upon mere denials of the government’s complaint but “must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.” See Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e). The general denials in his answers to the government’s interrogatories do not meet this burden, see Vidrine v. Enger, 752 F.2d 107, 110 (5th Cir.1984), and his affidavit fares no better. For one thing, Roberts’s [sic] affidavit does not say that he never engaged in illegal drug activity with Ireland; it says that he “expeet[s] to prove” that he never engaged in such activity. Thus, the affidavit does not contradict the government’s evidence. Even if we were to interpret Roberts’s [sic] affidavit as a denial that he had distributed drugs to Ireland, Roberts still has done no more than abjure the government’s allegations. He provides no facts at all that would support his contention. He does not proffer any interpretation of the tapes that would contradict the government’s version. Therefore, his conclusional statement denying culpability, which fails to controvert any of the facts alleged by the government, cannot defeat the government’s motion for summary judgment even though his statement appears in an affidavit. See May v. Department of the Air Force, 777 F.2d 1012, 1016 (1985), reh’g denied, 800 F.2d 1402 (5th Cir.1986); Simmons v. Lyons, 746 F.2d 265, 268-69 (5th Cir.1984); United States v. W.H. Hodges & Co., 533 F.2d 276, 278 (5th Cir.1976). Compare U”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. a Parcel of Land in City of Lucedale