United States v. McIntyre’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 1221 · 1978
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably O'CONNOR v. Ortega (1987), United States v. Duncan (1979)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Berger v. New York · United States v. Murdock · Yeomans v. Kentucky
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] business office need not be sealed to offer its occupant a reasonable degree of privacy”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation, but such term does not include any electronic communication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] trial court will rarely abuse its discretion by refusing to admit [polygraph] evidence, even for a limited purpose and under limited conditions.”
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.