United States v. Commito’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 95 · 1990
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. Homick (1992), United States v. Tham (1991)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on United States v. Ippolito · United States v. Martin · United States v. Brown · United States v. Smith · United States v. Robinson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“normal investigative procedures have been tried and have failed or reasonably appear to be unlikely to succeed if tried or to be too dangerous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); United States v. Carneiro, 861 F.2d 1171 , 1178 (9th Cir.1988) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the traditional investigative measures used by the government provided evidence sufficient to confirm the FBI’s suspicions that Commito and certain of his associates were engaged in racketeering schemes, they failed to produce evidence sufficient to bring federal indictments against these men. After nearly a year of relying on these measures, the FBI did not know significant features of the enterprise, including the precise means by which Commito and his men concealed the illegal kickbacks, the identities of Commito’s many associates, and the nature of other schemes similar to the one planned with the undercover agent.”
1 later decision 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.