In re the United States’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 637 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Dalia v. United States (1979), United States v. Ivester (1996)
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Nardone 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A court] should attempt to effectuate the purpose of federal legislation and avoid interpretations which produce absurd or nugatory results. In Re United States, 563 F.2d 637, 642 (4th Cir.1977).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(T)he fact that Title III does not expressly limit the manner of installing listening devices is, in the light of the announced legislative intent (to combat organized crime), consistent with the conclusion that Congress implicitly commended the question of surreptitious entry to the informed discretion of the district judge, subject to the commands of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(w)hile the decision in Berger went off on other points, the opinion clearly reveals that the interception under scrutiny was accomplished by means of a bugging device surreptitiously planted in the target office. (Citation omitted) The Court, however, did not order the suppression of the collected evidence on that basis.”
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.