Forman v. Data Transfer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Barnes, 951 So. 2d 860 - Rollins, Inc. v. Butland (2006)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 227
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Ristaino v. Ross · Wetzel v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation 94-1064 94-1194 94-1195 94-1198 94-1202 94-1203 94-1207 94-1208 94-1219
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would not avoid duplicative lawsuits with potentially inconsistent results where, as here, liability is determined by facts that are individual as to each plaintiff”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be inconsistent with the specific and personal remedy provided by Congress to address the minor nuisance of unsolicited facsimile advertisements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“horrendous, possibly annihilating punishment, unrelated to any damage to the purported class or to any benefit to defendant.”
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.