United States v. Underhill’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 105 · 1987
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore (1987), United States v. Dale (1993)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 1955 · 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. § 2515 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Gelbard v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purpose of committing any criminal or tortious act”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is the intention of Congress that controls, and a result contrary to the literal meaning of the words is justified when 'the literal application of a statute will produce a result demonstrably at odds with the intentions of its drafters....'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the purpose of an interception is to make or preserve an accurate record of a conversation in order to prevent future distortions by a participant, the interception is legal.”
3 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.