United States v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 145 · 1971
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1992
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Kennedy v. Powell · Rathbun v. United States · Rosenblatt v. Baer · Harris v. Arkansas
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of showing voluntary consent, it is only necessary for the government to show initially that one party to a communication engaged in a communication knowing that that communication was being monitored by government agents. Such a showing would be sufficient to permit the testimonial use of such communications, unless the party objecting to their use shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the will of the party so engaged in the communication was overcome by threats or improper inducement amounting to coercion or duress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. to establish involuntariness the defendant’s burden is to show that [the informant’s] will was overcome by threats or improper inducement amounting to coercion or duress . . . we do not view a promise of leniency with respect to a pending indictment as coercive, at least in the absence of evidence that the indictment had been improperly brought.”
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.