People v. Lesslie’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2021
22 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. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · United States v. White · O'CONNOR v. Ortega
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ilt also was well within [the court's] discretion to exclude [CRE Segovia, 196 P.3d at 1182 (pro-608(b) evidence] as being more prejudicial than probative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether the circumstances of a communication justify a belief that it is not subject to interception is analyzed in the same manner as the question whether an investigative activity amounts to a search: that is, whether there is a justifiable expectation of privacy at the time and place of the communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lesslie“simply because a person allows one conversation to be overheard by nearby individuals does not mean that the expectation of freedom from electronic reception by [any individual] is objectively unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lesslie
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.