229 Mich. App. 318 - Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2017
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
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 nonetheless recognize that several courts in other jurisdictions have analyzed this precise issue....In general, these courts have been willing to extend the consent exception in the federal wiretapping act to include vicarious consent by a parent on behalf of his or her minor child to intercepting and using communications with a third party where such action is in the child's best interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“language [of Title III] gives us no indication that Congress intended to create an exception for a custodial parent of a minor child to consent on the child's behalf and tape record telephone conversations between the child and a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“good faith basis that it is objectively reasonable to believe that the minor child is being abused, threatened, or intimidated by the other parent,”
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.