448 Pa. Super. 98 - Commonwealth v. McIvor’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Agnew v. Dupler (1998), 449 Pa. Super. 517 - Commonwealth v. Dewar (1996)
18 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. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on United States v. White · United States v. District Court · Blystone v. Pennsylvania · King v. Lynaugh · In Re Nomination Petition of Wesley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, where there is an expectation of privacy there is also an expectation of non-interception. Such is not always the case, however. For instance, ... if one is speaking with the town gossip at a public swimming pool under circumstances insuring that the gossip is not wearing a body wire, one’s expectation of non-interception is very high, but the expectation of privacy is very low. Thus, an expectation of privacy does not always carry a concomitant expectation of non-interception, and vice versa. For purposes of violation of the Wiretap Act, while we consider the expectation of privacy as a factor, it cannot be the determining factor in our analysis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny oral communication uttered by a person possessing an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation. The term does not include any electronic communication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]mplicit in any discussion of an expectation that a communication will not be recorded, is a discussion of the right to privacy.”
2 later decisions 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.