United States v. Ashley’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 1069 · 1989
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. David (1991), United States v. Nelson-Rodriguez (2003)
28 federal appellate · 18 district · 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. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Franks v. Delaware · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Bates v. State Bar · Pelaes 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decide if the facts set forth in the application were minimally adequate to support the determination that was made.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bare conclusory statements that normal techniques would be unproductive, based solely on an affiant's prior experience”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accordingly, the government is not required to show that other methods have been wholly unsuccessful.”
3 later decisions 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.