United States v. Drew’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Kolender v. Lawson · Smith v. Goguen · United States v. Lanier
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if every [breach of an Internet website’s terms of service] does qualify [as a violation of the CFAA], then there is absolutely no limitation or criteria as to which of the breaches should merit crim inal prosecution. All manner of situations will be covered.... All can be prosecuted. Given the ‘standardless sweep’ that results, federal law enforcement entities would be improperly free to ‘pursue their personal predilections.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have been routinely upheld by circuit and district courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the world would be a better place without her in it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin v. State
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.