Giordano v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
540 federal appellate · 45 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 752 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Gelbard v. United States (1972), United States v. Oates (1977)
540 federal appellate · 45 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Alderman v. United States · Desist v. United States · Taglianetti v. United States
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 752 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Nothing in Aldermen v. United States, Ivanovov v. United States, or Butenko v. United States, 394 U.S. 165 , 89 S.Ct. 961, 22 L.Ed.2d 176, requires an adversary proceeding and full disclosure for resolution of every issue raised by an electronic surveillance.' Taglianetti v. United States, 394 U.S. 316 , 89 S.Ct. 1099, 22 L.Ed.2d 302 (1961).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * for further proceedings in conformity with Alderman v. United States * * *.”
3 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.