Miller v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Thompson v. United States · Gilbert A. Cuneo v. Donald H. Rumsfeld
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just as the vindication of constitutional rights by private litigants in § 1983 actions serves the public interest, the vindication of important statutory rights such as those embodied in 18 U.S.C. § 2520 also serve the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Bell
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.