wire communication
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 316 U.S. 129 - Goldman v. United States · 1942Most cited · 1,068 citing opinions
The protection intended and afforded by the statute is of the means of communication and not of the secrecy of the conversation. What is protected is the message itself throughout the course of its transmission by the instrumentality or agency of transmission.
How often courts cite the case defining “wire communication”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “wire communication” — 1,068 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.