United States v. Nardone’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 41 · 1939
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1987 · most notably Nardone v. United States (1939), United States v. Shoffner (1987)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 151
Relies on Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Nardone v. United States · United States v. Kraus · United States v. Nardone
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that one conspirator tells another something relevant to the conspiracy does not alone make the declaration competent; the declaration must itself be an act in furtherance of the common object; mere conversation between the conspirators is not that .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress had not also made incompetent testimony which had become accessible by the use of unlawful ‘taps’, for to divulge that information was not to divulge an intercepted telephone talk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the [trial] judge improperly refused to allow the accused to examine the prosecution as to the uses to which it had put the information”
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.