Hately v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2704 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2707 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Carter v. Ball · Goldberg v. B. Green & Co. · 154 F. Supp. 2d 497 - In Re DoubleClick Inc. Privacy Litigation
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may include in its subpoena or court order [requesting communications stored by a remote computing service] a requirement that the service provider to whom the request is directed create a backup copy of the contents of the electronic communications sought in order to preserve the communications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hately v. Watts“[O]nce an email has been delivered and opened, its transmission is complete, the [electronic communication service] is no longer storing it 'incident to transmission.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hately v. Watts“'[S]uch communication' in § 2510(17)(B) refers to communication 'temporar[ily and] intermediate[ly]' stored 'incidental to the electronic transmission thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hately v. Watts
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.