Melton v. United States, 404 U.S. 1017 (1972). · Go Syfert
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“the communications between defendant and were not privileged, since third persons were present at the time the communications were made.”
151 citation events (6 in the last 25 years) across 56 distinct courts.
Strongest positive: United States v. Zolp (njd, 1987-04-30)
Treatment trajectory · 1972 → 2026 · click a year to view as-of
1972 1999 2026
Top citers, strongest first. 19 distinct citers.
discussed Cited as authority (quoted) United States v. Zolp
D.N.J. · 1987 · quote attribution · 1 verbatim quote · confidence low
the communications between defendant and were not privileged, since third persons were present at the time the communications were made.
cited Cited "see" Blackwell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
S.D. Miss. · 2001 · signal: see · confidence high
See Keller v. Dravo Corporation, 441 F.2d 1239, 1245 (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972).
discussed Cited "see" Boucher v. McGovern
R.I. · 1994 · signal: see · confidence high
See Keller v. Dravo Corp., 441 F.2d 1239, 1241-42 (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972). *1379 Additionally, although the right of access to the courts is an aspect of the right to petition the government, California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited, 404 U.S. 508, 510, 513 , 92 S.Ct. 609, 612, 613 , 30 L.Ed.2d 642, 646, 648 (1972), such right does not entail absolute authorization to assert any possible type of claim.
cited Cited "see" In Re Bassel C., No. 92 09 004 (Feb. 5, 1993)
Conn. Super. Ct. · 1993 · signal: see · confidence high
See State v. Cobuzzi, 161 Conn. 371 , 376 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 677 , 30 L.Ed.2d 664 (1972); State v. Kaplan, 20 Conn. App. 183 , 186 (1989).
cited Cited "see" In Re Enrique S., No. 92 09 037 (Feb. 5, 1993)
Conn. Super. Ct. · 1993 · signal: see · confidence high
See State v. Cobuzzi, 161 Conn. 371 , 376 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 677 , 30 L.Ed.2d 664 (1972); State v. Kaplan, 20 Conn. App. 183 , 186 (1989).
cited Cited "see" In Re Barry G., (Jul. 24, 1992)
Conn. Super. Ct. · 1992 · signal: see · confidence high
See state v. Corbuzzi, 11 Conn. 371 , 376 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 677 , 30 L.Ed.2d 664 (1972); State v. Kaplan, 20 Conn. App. 183 , 186 (1989).
cited Cited "see" In Re David M., (Feb. 6, 1992)
Conn. Super. Ct. · 1992 · signal: see · confidence high
See State v. Corbuzzi, 161 Conn. 371 , 376 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 677 , 30 L.Ed.2d 664 (1972); State v. Kaplan, 20 Conn. App. 183 , 186 (1989).
cited Cited "see" In Re Alex M., (Sep. 21, 1990)
Conn. Super. Ct. · 1990 · signal: see · confidence high
See State v. Corbuzzi, 161 Conn. 371 , 376 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct.
discussed Cited "see" Sienkiewycz v. Dressell
Vt. · 1989 · signal: see · confidence high
See Keller v. Dravo Corp., 441 F.2d 1239, 1241-42 (5th Cir. 1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 (1972) (exclusive remedy provision of *425 federal Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act held constitutional under rational basis test); Benjamin v. Ricks, 63 Cal. App. 3d 593, 597 , 132 Cal. Rptr. 758, 760 (1976) (California statute’s limitation on employee’s right to recover from employer for pain and suffering held rationally related to legitimate governmental interest); Parker v. Energy Development Co., 691 P.2d 981, 988 (Wyo. 1984) (Wyoming’s exclusive remedy provision he…
discussed Cited "see" Brookings v. State
Fla. · 1986 · signal: see · confidence high
See United States v. Blackburn, 446 F.2d 1089 (5th Cir.1971) (waiver of the privilege when alleged privileged communication between former attorney and client was made in the presence of trial counsel and government attorneys), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972).
discussed Cited "see" State v. Federici
Conn. · 1979 · signal: see · confidence high
That is, *55 whether we view the search and seizure as being chronologically prior to the arrest, as they certainly were, or as also being “contemporaneous” with it and an “integral part of a single incident”; see State v. Cobuzzi, 161 Conn. 371, 377-79 , 288 A.2d 439 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S. Ct. 677 , 30 L.
discussed Cited "see, e.g." DiGiovanni v. Traylor Bros., Inc.
D.R.I. · 1993 · signal: see also · confidence low
See, e.g., Kathriner, 975 F.2d at 662-63 ; Ducrepont, 877 F.2d at 396 ; Davis v. Cargill, Inc., 808 F.2d 361, 362 (5th Cir.1986); see also Keller v. Dravo Corp., 441 F.2d 1239, 1244 (5th Cir.1971) (dry dock used for ship repair is not a vessel when moored), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972); Chahoc v. Hunt Shipyard, 431 F.2d 576 , 577 (5th Cir.1970) (floating dry dock is not a vessel when moored and operated as a dry dock), cert. denied, 401 U.S. 982 , 91 S.Ct. 1198 , 28 L.Ed.2d 333 (1971).
discussed Cited "see, e.g." State v. Harrison
Conn. App. Ct. · 1993 · signal: see, e.g. · confidence low
See, e.g., State v. Corbuzzi, 161 Conn. 371, 376 , 288 A.2d 439 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 925 S. Ct. 677 , 30 L.
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Company, Inc. v. C.N. Lloyd Brasileiro, the Hartford Insurance Company of Alabama, in Personam
11th Cir. · 1989 · signal: see, e.g. · confidence low
See, e.g., Keller v. Dravo Corp., 441 F.2d 1239, 1244 (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972) (although court did not preclude finding that floating drydock could be vessel under different facts, court here found as a matter of law that floating drydock was not a “vessel"); Bernardo v. Bethlehem Steel Co., 314 F.2d 604, 608 (2d Cir.1963) (jury properly decided that floating drydock was not “vessel” within the meaning of Jones Act), Floating drydocks have been classified as “vessels” for admiralty purposes when they become active some way in …
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Garza v. State
Tex. App. · 1985 · signal: see also · confidence low
For a good discussion of this general rule and its underlying policy considerations as applied by the federal courts, see U.S. v. Hockridge, 573 F.2d 752 (2nd Cir.1978), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 821 , 99 S.Ct. 85 , 58 L.Ed.2d 112 (1978); U.S. v. Grieco, 261 F.2d 414 (2nd Cir.1958), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 907 , 79 S.Ct. 582 , 3 L.Ed.2d 572 (1959); See also U.S. v. Blackburn, 446 F.2d 1089 (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972).
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Craig Mccarthy v. The Bark Peking
2d Cir. · 1983 · signal: compare · confidence low
Compare, e.g., Keller v. Dravo, 441 F.2d 1239, 1243-44 (5 Cir.), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 (1971) (floating drydock attached to dock and used as construction platform held not to be a vessel under LHWCA as a matter of law); Chahoc v. Hunt Shipyard, 431 F.2d 576, 577 (5 Cir.1970) (same), with Burks v. American River Transportation Co., supra, 679 F.2d at 71, 75 (non-propelled river barge held to be a vessel). 25 At the same time, however, virtually any capacity for use as seagoing transportation--perhaps even the hypothetically plausible possibility has sufficed to lend the dignity of "vessel…
discussed Cited "see, e.g." McCarthy v. The Bark Peking
2d Cir. · 1983 · signal: compare · confidence low
Compare, e.g, Keller v. Dravo, 441 F.2d 1239, 1243-44 (5 Cir.), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 (1971) (floating drydock attached to dock and used as construction platform held not to be a vessel under LHWCA as a matter of law); Chahoc v. Hunt Shipyard, 431 F.2d 576, 577 (5 Cir.1970) (same), with Burks v. American River Transportation Co., supra, 679 F.2d at 71, 75 (non-propelled river barge held to be a vessel).
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Edmund J. Flynn Co. v. LaVay
D.C. · 1981 · signal: see, e.g. · confidence low
See, e. g., United States v. Blackburn, 446 F.2d 1089, 1091 (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 , 92 S.Ct. 679 , 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972) (“[W]hen the client and attorney themselves, for purposes beneficial to the client, lift the veil [of attorney-client privilege], they cannot lower it again”, quoting United States v. Shivley, 112 F.Supp. 734, 742 (S.D.Cal.1953)); International Paper Co. v. Fibreboard Corp., 63 F.R.D. 88, 92 (D.Del.1974) (It would be “manifestly unfair” to allow one party to make factual assertions and then deny the other party “the foundation for those assert…
discussed Cited "see, e.g." United States v. Pueblo of San Ildefonso
Ct. Cl. · 1975 · signal: see, e.g. · confidence low
See e.g., Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska v. United States, 195 Ct. Cl. 365 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1017 (1972); Six Nations, supra; Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians, supra. However, this court has acknowledged, on several occasions, that two or more tribes or groups might inhabit a region in joint and amicable possession without destroying the “exclusive” nature of their use and occupancy, and without defeating Indian title.
Melton
v.
United States
No. 71-509.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Jan 10, 1972.
404 U.S. 1017

C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.