United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2339 (§ 803 of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001) · 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (§ 120005 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3504 · 50 U.S.C. § 1806 (§ 106 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) · 50 U.S.C. § 1825 (§ 305 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) · 50 U.S.C. § 1845 (§ 405 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978)
Relies on Alderman v. United States · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Berger v. New York · United States v. D'Andrea · United States v. Abuhamra
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he Court can safely reject Defendant's apparent contention that FISA's ex parte provisions are per se unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.