United States v. Cotroni’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 708 · 1975
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Yousef (2003), United States v. Bagaric (1983)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2515 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Elkins v. United States · Mahan v. Howell · Foley Bros. v. Filardo · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Tocco v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“information furnished [to] American officials by foreign police need not be excluded simply because the procedures followed in securing it did not fully comply with our nation's constitutional requirements.” United States v. Cotroni, 527 F.2d 708 , 711 (2d Cir.1975). This is so even when”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We therefore do not reach the question whether they [conversations between husband and wife] were admissible because ... both spouses were participants in patently illegal activity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the conduct of foreign police [were] so reprehensible as to shock the conscience,”
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.