Platt v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Beverly Camp Simpson v. John G. Simpson, III · Anonymous v. Anonymous · Duane White v. Harl Weiss, Colleen Longo v. Harl Weiss · Kempf v. Kempf
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is one thing to apply this law in the case of an estranged couple where the surveillor has no legal right to begin with in entering the separate home of the surveilled spouse. It is quite another to forbid a person from attaching a wiretapping device on his or her own telephone within the marital home." Kempf at 622 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the extent to which Title III applies to interspousal wiretaps used in preparation for divorce litigation where the alleged violator attaches a recording device to his or her own telephone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Platt v. Platt“conclude that federal law was intended to apply to a 'purely domestic conflict' involving the interception of a family member's phone conversations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Platt v. Platt
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.