State v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Whitner (2012), Pollock v. T Pollock H C
2 federal appellate · 26 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)
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · United States v. Jacobsen · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Jizmejian v. United States · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen sections of the federal and state acts are substantially similar in language, it is appropriate to conclude that our Legislature's 'intent in enacting the sections of the . . . Act . . . was simply to follow the federal act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any person who ... [p]urposely intercepts ... any ... oral communication ... shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.