McKamey v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 1236 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015
5 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Hughey v. United States · Luster v. Cushman · Begier v. Internal Revenue Service · United States v. Hall
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by the aid of wire, radio, eleetro-magnetic, photooptical, or photoelectronic facilities, but does not include: (A) The radio portion of a cordless telephone communication that is transmitted between the cordless telephone handset and the base unit; (B) Any wire or oral communication”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frierson v. Goetz“any aural transfer made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid of wire, cable, or other like connection between the point of origin and the point of reception ... [but] does not include the radio portion of a cordless telephone communication that is transmitted between the cordless telephone handset and the base unit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frierson v. Goetz
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.