United States v. Goldman’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.2d 310 · 1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1978
6 federal appellate · 2 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. § 605
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Nardone v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Wiborg v. United States · Clune v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conspirators who discuss their unlawful schemes must take the risk of being overheard and the risk of having what is overheard used against them- provided there is otherwise no trespass by the listener or violation of a statutory right to use a means of communication thus made immune from interception.”
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.