Commonwealth v. Vieux’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2019
16 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. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Griggs-Ryan v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Banks v. Privonka
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failing to pursue a futile tactic does not amount to constitutional ineffectiveness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any device . . . other than . . . any telephone . . . being used by the subscriber or user in the ordinary course of its business[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.