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Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
December 2020
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Glik v. Cunniffe (2011), Campiti v. Walonis (1979)

5 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions

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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 Commonwealth v. Vitello · 30 Cal. App. 3d 880 - Kirkpatrick v. Joseph A.

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

  1. “means to secretly hear, secretly record, or aid another to secretly hear or secretly record, the contents of any wire or oral communication through the use of any intercepting device....”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “clear and unequivocal objective manifestations of knowledge ... sufficiently probative of a person's state of mind as to allow an inference of knowledge.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “were to interpret 'secretly' as encompassing only those situations where an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy,”
    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.