United States v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 83 · 1985
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Lambert v. United States (1985), United States v. Moore (1990)
78 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 845 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Jacobsen · Waller v. Georgia
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is required is that the investigators give serious consideration to the non-wiretap techniques prior to applying for wiretap authority and that the court be informed of the reasons for the investigators' belief that such non-wiretap techniques have been or will likely be inadequate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] flagrant disregard for the limitations of a search warrant might make an otherwise valid search an impermissible general search requiring the suppression of all evidence seized during the search.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person will not be acting as a police agent merely because there was some antecedent contact between that person and the police.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.