Steven Guest’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 13 district · 27 state decisions

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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Email users] would lose a legitimate expectation of privacy in an e-mail that had already reached its recipient; at this moment, the e-mailer would be analogous to a letter-writer, whose 'expectation of privacy ordinarily terminates upon delivery' of the letter.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Tentoni · 339 F. Supp. 3d 724 - United States v. Mohammad

2. “' "as specific as the circumstances and the nature of the activity under investigation permit.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Pippin · State v. Shaskus

3. “Materials, other than contraband or the fruits of a crime or things otherwise criminally possessed, or property designed or intended for use, or which is or has been used, as the means of committing a criminal offense, and— (1) in anticipation of communicating such materials to the public, are prepared, produced, authored, or created, whether by the person in possession of the materials or by any other person; (2) are possessed for the purposes of communicating such materials to the public; and (3) include mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, or theories of the person who prepared, produced, authored, or created such material.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sennett v. United States