Commonwealth v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Glik v. Cunniffe (2011), 351 N.J. Super. 577 - Hornberger v. American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. (2002)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 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)
Relies on Koon v. United States · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · United States v. Koon · Commonwealth v. Blood · 115 Ill. 2d 47 - People v. Beardsley
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the Rodney King videotape visually captured the conduct of the police officers' [beating of] King, the recording was virtually inaudible, until electronic enhancements filtered the audio portion to allow the actual commands of the police officers to be heard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no basis to ignore the plain language and legislative history”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any aggrieved person whose oral or wire communications were intercepted, disclosed or used except as permitted or authorized by this section ... shall have a civil cause of action against any person who so intercepts, discloses or uses such communications ...."”
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.