United States v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 508 · 1978
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2009
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Calley v. Callaway · United States v. Cruz · United States v. Rubin · United States v. Clemones · United States v. De Simone
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“18 U.S.C. sec. 2511(2)(d) exempts from the operation of the entire chapter, of which section 2518 is a part, consensual recordings such as made here.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of the Jencks Act is to reinforce the credibility of the criminal justice process by requiring the prosecution to furnish the statements of any witness it calls so that the defense can conduct its cross-examination in light of all facts known to the prosecutor and so that the defense is assured that the witness had made no secret contrary statements in the past.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Immediately upon the expiration of the period of the order [issued by a judge of competent jurisdiction authorizing or approving the interception of an oral communication] ..., such recordings shall be made available to the judge issuing such order and sealed under his directions____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wasserman v. Low
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.