Directv, Inc. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
371 F.3d 814 · 2004
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Edwards v. Prime, Inc. (2010), DIRECTV, Inc. v. Robson (2005)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · California v. ARC America Corp. · United States v. Rodgers · Cimo v. Petty · Harris v. Garner
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when Congress uses different language in similar sections, it intends different meanings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) In General. — Except as provided in section 2511(2)(a)(ii), any person whose wire, oral, or electronic communication is intercepted, disclosed, or intentionally used in violation of this chapter may in a civil action recover from the person or entity, other than the United States, which engaged in that violation such relief as may be appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to circumvent this conditional access technology and allow users to receive the satellite transmissions provided by DTV without paying DTV any fees”); see also DIRECTV, Inc. v. Barnes, 302 F.Supp.2d 774 , 776 (W.D.Mich.2004). 3 . The computer, running the special”
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.