United States v. Congote’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 971 · 1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2006
7 federal appellate · 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. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Payton v. New York · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · Rawlings 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The defendant] instituted the calls and spoke voluntarily and without hesitation to the agents. None of the agents pretended to be Brock, the party [defendant] wished to reach. [Defendant] had no legitimate expectation of privacy in his telephone conversation with the agents. He assumed the risk of exposure when he spoke freely with strangers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The foregoing discussion of the asserted violations of the rights of Brock and Marszal-kowski, upon which appellant claims standing to rely, are merely assumptions based upon the record in this case, including the magistrate’s report. It is not to be construed as a definitive holding that their respective rights were in fact violated.”
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.