United States v. Splawn’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 414 · 1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2017
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2512 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on United States v. Batchelder · Hughey v. United States · Moskal v. United States · United States v. Batchelder · Quality Inns International, Inc. v. L.B.H. Associates Ltd. Partnership
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]ntercept” means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As stated above, we believe that the devices at issue [cloned satellite descrambler devices] clearly fit within Sec. 2512(1)(b)'s prohibition....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce.”
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.