United States v. Giordano’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
987 federal appellate · 192 district · 387 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,050 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Smith v. Maryland (1979)
987 federal appellate · 192 district · 387 state decisions — followed in 37 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
reviewedUnited States v. Giordano (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Berger v. New York · Nardone v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Chavez · United States v. Donovan · United States v. Kahn · Katz v. United States · Berger v. New York
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 2,050 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to satisfy any of those statutory requirements that directly and substantially implement the congressional intention to limit the use of intercept procedures to those situations clearly calling for the employment of this extraordinary investigative device.”
103 later decisions quote this exact passage“a full and complete statement as to whether or not other investigative procedures have been tried and failed or why they reasonably appear to be unlikely to succeed if tried or to be too dangerous.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whenever any wire or oral communication has been intercepted, no part of the contents of such communication and no evidence derived therefrom may be received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other authority of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof if the disclosure of that information would be in violation of this chapter.”
28 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.