United States v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
304 federal appellate · 41 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 539 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Scott v. United States (1978), United States v. Giordano (1974)
304 federal appellate · 41 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 22 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. Chavez (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Giordano · First National Bank v. Dickinson · Cupp v. Naughten · Emle Industries, Inc. v. Patentex, Inc.
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 539 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) the communication was unlawfully intercepted; (ii) the order of authorization or approval under which it was intercepted is insufficient on its face; or (iii) the interception was not made in conformity with the order of authorization or approval.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Attorney General, or any Assistant Attorney General especially designated by the Attorney General, may authorize an application to a Federal judge . . . for . . . an order authorizing or approving the interception of wire or oral communications by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or a Federal agency having responsibility for the investigation of the offense as to which the application is made, . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strict adherence ... to the provisions of ... [the wiretapping statute] would ... be more in keeping with the responsibilities Congress has imposed upon it when authority to engage in wiretapping or electronic surveillance is sought.”
4 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.