539 F. Supp. 621 - Citron v. Citron’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2003
5 federal appellate · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 78F (§ 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · United States v. Murdock · United States v. Pomponio · United States v. Bishop · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour
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 13 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 (1) shall have a civil cause of action * * * [for damages] (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny person who— (a) willfully intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept, any wire or oral communication * * * [shall be guilty of a crime], (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“liability under Title III--be it civil or criminal--cannot be established against any defendant without showing that he acted with intentional or reckless disregard of his legal obligations.”
2 later decisions 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.