Campiti v. Walonis’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 387 · 1979
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Griggs-Ryan v. Smith (1990), Franklin v. Oregon (1981)
31 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 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
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · Bullock v. United States · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · United States v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Vitello
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any telephone or telegraph instrument, equipment or facility, or any component thereof”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person acting under color of law to intercept a wire or oral communication, where ... one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to such interception.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall not be unlawful [for various employees of communication common carriers], whose facilities are used in the transmission of a wire communication, to intercept, disclose or use that communication in the normal course of his employment while engaged in any activity which is a necessary incident to the rendition of his service or to the protection of the rights or property of the carrier of such communication: Provided, That said communication common carriers shall not utilize service observing or random monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control checks.”
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.