Registercom Inc v. Verio Inc’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Connolly (2009), State v. Winkler (1996)
7 district · 13 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Relies on Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · University of Texas v. Camenisch · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While new commerce on the Internet has exposed courts to many new situations, it has not fundamentally changed the principles of contract.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To form a valid contract under New York law, there must be an offer, acceptance, consideration, mutual assent and intent to be bound.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“presents the potential licensee (i.e., the end-user) 'with a message on his or her computer screen, requiring that the user manifest his or her assent to the terms of the license agreement by clicking on an icon.' ” Register.com, Inc. v. Verio, Inc., 356 F.3d 393, 429 (2d Cir.2004) (quoting Specht v. Netscape Commc’ns Corp., 150 F.Supp.2d 585, 593-94 (S.D.N.Y.2001)). .”
2 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.