People v. Pons’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 605
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The monitoring of [a] telephone pager device is more intrusive than the use of a pen register. The pager device is capable of conveying substantive information by combining digits in various sequences. Both telephone numbers and coded messages may be conveyed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. State · Brown v. Waddell
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.