Duane White v. Harl Weiss, Colleen Longo v. Harl Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 1067 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1995
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Olmstead v. United States · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Beverly Camp Simpson v. John G. Simpson, III · United States v. Schrimsher · Remington v. Remington
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person whose wire or oral communication is intercepted, disclosed, or used in violation of this chapter shall (1) have a civil cause of action against any person who intercepts, discloses, or uses, or procures any other person to intercept, disclose or use such communications, and (2) be entitled to recover from any such person (a) actual damages ... (b) punitive damages, and (c) a reasonable attorney's fee....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Kempf v. Kempf · Platt v. Platt“[n]either the legislative history, nor the language or holding of Simpson insulates a private detective from civil liability for violations of the Act * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kempf v. Kempf“intercepts, discloses, or uses, or procures any other person to intercept, disclose, or use”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobson v. Rose
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.