Commonwealth v. Barboza’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2515 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Forsyth v. Barr · State Oil Co. v. Khan · McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co. · Lage 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The evidence] included the tape recordings of conversations between Tom and the defendant; Tom’s detailed description of indecent touching and the oral and anal sex acts committed by the defendant; a sentimental greeting card the defendant sent to Tom; and the defendant’s own testimony, including his attempts (which the jury could well have found implausible) to explain parts of the recorded conversations in which he refers to “making love” and discusses masturbation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Massachusetts wiretap statute ... strictly prohibits the secret electronic recording by a private individual of any oral communication[,] ... the statute does not mandate that all unlawfully intercepted communications should be suppressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.