United States of America, v. Microsoft Corporation,’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.3d 34 · 2001
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 79 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 352 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis v. Trinko, LLP (2004), Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. Linkline Communications, Inc. (2009)
114 federal appellate · 79 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Singleton v. Wulff · Liteky et al United States · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 352 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“exposing”-i.e., making available to software developers-routines or protocols that perform certain widely-used functions. These are known as Application Programming Interfaces, or”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[d]eference to the judgments and rulings of courts depends upon public confidence in the integrity and independence of judges,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.