2 Md. App. 756 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1986
16 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 Katz v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Goldman v. United States · Rathbun v. United States · Schwartz v. Texas
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not believe that the Legislature intended to place a severe restriction on the ordinary usage by subscribers of telephone extensions by denying the subscriber the right to allow a family member, an employee, a friend, or the police to listen to a conversation to which the subscriber is a party. Nor do we believe that the Legislature intended to make a criminal out of every person who would use a telephone extension under circumstances such as are here present....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold only that the admissibility in evidence of the contents of a communication overheard on a regularly used telephone extension is not controlled by the provisions of the Maryland Wiretapping Act, since the Legislature never intended that the use of such an extension telephone would be considered as a means for "intercepting” or "obtaining” a telephone communication within the meaning of the act, and particularly Section 93 (a) thereof. [Id. at 765-66.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. State““Obtain or attempt to obtain the whole or any part of a telephonic or telegraphic communication to which such person is not a participant by means of any device, contrivance, machine or apparatus, whether electrical, mechanical, manual or otherwise, unless consent is given by the participants.” Md. Ann. Code, Art. 35, § 93 (a) (Repealed by Ch. 2, Laws of Maryland, Special Session, 1973.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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