321 F. Supp. 2d 825 - DirecTV, Inc. v. Cavanaugh’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692E (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1692 · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2512 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · United Mine Workers v. Pennington
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the conduct of a business providing goods, property, or service primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and includes the advertising, solicitation, offering for sale or rent, sale, lease, or distribution of a service or property, tangible or intangible, real, personal, or mixed, or any other article, or a business opportunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a triable issue of fact exists as to whether DirecTV was using the demand letters in an impermissible fashion.... [T]he trier of fact could find the mass-mailing of generic demand letters to be an improper attempt under the MCPA to coerce or confuse consumers into paying fees or agreeing to lengthy subscriptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that DirecTV acted improperly by sending thousands of generic demand letters to people suspected of signal theft. Ca-vanaugh alleges the goal of DirecTV’s ‘End User Development Group’ was to coerce customers to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement and to agree to lengthy subscription packages.”
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.