Ting v. AT&T’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.3d 1126 · 2003
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 10 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably 36 Cal. 4th 148 - Discover Bank v. Superior Court (2005), 223 Ill. 2d 1 - Kinkel v. Cingular Wireless, LLC (2006)
80 federal appellate · 10 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp.
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like communication service, directly or indirectly, by any means or device, or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, or locality, or to subject any particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stand[ ] as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any determination underlying the grant of an injunction by the standard that applies to that determination.”
5 later decisions 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.