United States v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
787 F.2d 1086 · 1986
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably United States v. Rollins (1988), United States v. de Soto (1989)
24 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on United States v. Murphy · United States v. Gironda · United States v. Jefferson · Spray-Rite Services Corp. v. Monsanto Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“understanding what is said in a tape recorded conversation is not outside the average person's understanding.”
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.