Eberhart v. Amazon.com, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 47 U.S.C. § 230 (Communications Decency Act § 230)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Lama Holding Co. v. Smith Barney Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would encounter an emerging consensus against construing Amazon as a 'seller' or 'distributor'-and, therefore, against holding Amazon strictly liable for defective products sold its on its website.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 106 ). To the extent the Illinois Supreme Court would consider the laws and judicial opinions of other jurisdictions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.