Smith v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 2520
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Branzburg v. Hayes · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Jenkins v. McKeithen
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.
“pursue an open legal confrontation with my own government on a matter which was very unclear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Nixon“the nation's leading newspapers were rife with accounts of (these) buggings * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Nixon
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.