Woodhull v. Meinel’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Woods v. Prestwick House, Inc. (2011), Pippen v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC (2013)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 47 U.S.C. § 230 (Communications Decency Act § 230)
Relies on Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc. · Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union · Batzel v. Smith · Zeran v. America Online, Inc. · Firth v. State of NY
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although pro se pleadings are viewed with tolerance, a pro se litigant, having chosen to represent himself, is held to the same standard of conduct and compliance with court rules, procedures, and orders as are members of the bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.