Leon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Schwartz v. Texas (1952), Shelton v. State (2001)
2 district · 61 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 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Nardone v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Ex parte Jackson · Nardone v. United States · Albert Adams v. People of the State of New York
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * if a statute makes it a criminal offense to do any one of several acts, which are mentioned disjunctively, an indictment based upon the statute may charge in a single count that the defendant did as many of the forbidden things as the pleader chooses to include, using the conjunction ‘and’ where the word ‘or’ is used in the statute, and the count will not be void for duplicity, but the particular offense may be established at the trial of the case by proof of any one of the acts, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““However, in view of the decision in the Olmstead case we hold that evidence procured by wire tapping is not prohibited in the State courts, either by the Federal Constitution or by the Federal Communications Act. It is true that it is a criminal offense in Maryland, as in most other states, for any person connected with a telegraph or telephone company to divulge the contents or nature of any message. . . . But evidence obtained by means of wire tapping is not made inadmissible.””
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.