United States v. Bigos’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 639 · 1972
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably James J. Kevlik v. David B. Goldstein, Town of Derry (1984), United States v. Principe (1974)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Aguilar v. Texas · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Harris
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we agree that the presence of a third party commonly destroys the privilege, it does so only insofar as it is indicative of the intent of the parties that their communication not be confidential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.