367 So. 2d 800 - State v. Moses’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2018
11 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Lopez v. United States · United States v. Edward J. Fisch, Ivan L. Glasscock · 354 So. 2d 1334 - State v. Sutfield
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... A party speaking in private conversation does not knowingly expose his conversation to the public simply because an unknown party is surreptitiously hearing and recording every word that is being spoken. A confidence repeated by a false friend is received by others with attendant circumstances of the friend's credibility and memory. Without the use of electronic surveillance, one's remarks are not preserved for posterity on the reels of magnetic tape. As soon as electronic surveillance comes into play, the risk changes crucially and clearly there is an invasion of privacy. While there is no indication that the delegates sought to protect a person against betrayal by his confidant, clearly they sought to eliminate the danger that an official record is being made of what we say to unknown government agents at their unfettered discretion..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reeves“The purpose of this evidence was to show motive for the killing on the part of the defendant and the evidence of prior acts, declarations and threats of the accused, though not part of the res gestae is admissible when it substantially tends to establish motive or intention of the accused to commit the crime. 46 So.2d at 274 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... The risk of being overheard by an eavesdropper or betrayed by an informer or deceived as to the identity of one with whom one deals, is probably inherent in the conditions of human society. It is the kind of risk we necessarily assume whenever we speak (Brennan, dissenting) ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reeves
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.