Smith v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Katz v. United States · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Berger v. New York · Osborn v. United States · Barrett v. Zweibon
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“C&P’s limited technical role in the surveillance as well as its reasonable expectation of legality cannot give rise to liability for any statutory or constitutional violation. * * * [ 46 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Nixon
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.