321 F. Supp. 1074 - United States v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015
10 federal appellate ·
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 · Mapp v. Ohio · Weeks v. United States · Alderman v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]n the opinion of this Court, the position of the Attorney General is untenable. It is supported neither historically, nor by the language of the Omnibus Crime Act. Such power held by one individual was never contemplated by the framers of our Constitution and cannot be tolerated today. United States v. Sinclair, 321 F.Supp. 1074, 1079 (D.Mich.1971), aff’d sub nom. United States v. United States District Court, 407 U.S. 297 , 92 S.Ct. 2125 , 32 L.Ed.2d 752 (1972) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court hereby ORDERS that the Government make full disclosure to defendant Plamondon of his monitored conversations. The Court, in the exercise of its discretion, further ORDERS that an evidentiary hearing to determine the existence of taint, either as to the indictment or as to the evidence introduced at trial, be conducted at the conclusion of the trial of this matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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