Klein v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 189 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Ginsberg (1985), Christian v. United States (1978)
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3282 · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · United States v. Hayman · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Alaska Industrial Board
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there [was] some communication of valuable information derived from the intrusion to the prosecutor or his staff in order that there can appear some realistic possibility of prejudice to the defendant, (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Hiss“must be governed as much by his personal perception of the peculiarities of the case as by the facts actually in evidence.”
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.