United States v. Doolittle’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 1368 · 1975
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Donovan (1977), United States v. Vento (1976)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Draper v. United States · United States v. Giordano · United States v. District Court
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Billy Cecil Doolittle and others as yet unknown.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The procedure testified to by the agents appears a reasonable method for complying with the order of the district court, in accord with the statutory mandate that the interception be conducted in such a way as to minimize the interception of communications not otherwise subject to interception under Title III.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“this lack of specific knowledge is legally irrelevant. The words of section 1952 do not require specific knowledge of the use of interstate facilities and we agree with the decisions in other Circuits that such knowledge is not a prerequisite to criminal liability thereunder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.