Focus Media, Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.3d 916 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Sullivan (2008), Focus Media, Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co., Inc. (2005)
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Liteky et al United States · Bolker v. Commissioner · Bennett v. Gemmill · Trone v. Roberts Farms, Inc. · Rochman v. Northeast Utilities Service Group
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.
“The party asserting mootness has a heavy burden to establish that there is no effective relief remaining for court to provide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Wolf
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.