Directv, Inc. v. Treesh’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · National Labor Relations Board v. Natural Gas Utility District · Montgomery v. Huntington Bank
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Satellite companies] utilize satellites to provide programming to their subscribers in every jurisdiction. To permit thousands of local taxing jurisdictions to tax such a national service would create an unnecessary and undue burden on the providers of such services. . . . The power of the States to tax this service is not affected by [Telecommunications Act §] 602.””
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.