Seal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4 state decisions
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Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pope v. State · Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. v. Fitzpatrick · State v. Siegel · Mustafa v. State · United States v. Haimowitz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“goal is "to discern the legislative purpose, the ends to be accomplished, or the evils to be remedied." We must begin with the well-established canon of statutory construction that the starting point for interpreting a statute is the language of the statute itself. If the language is clear and unambiguous on its face, that is the end of our inquiry. If, however, the language is ambiguous, we move on to examine case law, the structure of the statute, statutory purpose, and legislative history to aid us in ascertaining the intent of the General Assembly. Additionally, statutes "should be read so that no word, clause, sentence or phrase is rendered superfluous or nugatory."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in wiretap statutes-demonstrates a clear legislative intent that Maryland law afford greater privacy than does the federal wiretap statute. Seal , 447 Md. at 73 -74 , 133 A.3d 1162 (citations and footnotes omitted). In addition, the Court of Appeals has repeatedly instructed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'a party to a ... conversation does not take the risk that another party, not acting as, or under the direction of, a government agent, will record and divulge the contents of the conversation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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