Fant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably State v. $217,590.00 in United States Currency (2000), Ex Parte Ward (1998)
30 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 18 U.S.C. § 287 · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Halper · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. · Austin v. United States · United States v. Ursery
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“asset forfeiture is remedial in nature and not a form of punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“shall proceed to trial in the same manner as in other civil cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ensuring that persons do not profit from their illegal acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Washington v. State
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.