United States v. Pacella’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 640 · 1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2013
10 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2515 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3504 · 18 U.S.C. § 6002 · 28 U.S.C. § 1826
Relies on United States v. Calandra · Gelbard v. United States · North v. United States · Johnson v. Ohio · Raymond J. Ryan and Helen Ryan v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) In any trial, hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, or other authority of the United States— (1) upon a claim by a party aggrieved that evidence is inadmissible because it is the primary product of an unlawful act or because it was obtained by the exploitation of an unlawful act, the opponent of the claim shall affirm or deny the occurrence of the alleged unlawful act[.] * * * (b) As used in this section “unlawful act” means any act [involving] the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device (as defined in [ 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (5) ]) in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device (as defined in [ 18 U.S.C.A. § 2510 ]) in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or any regulation or standard promulgated pursuant thereto.”
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.