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← 39 F. Supp. 2d 974 - Kaczmarek v. Microsoft Corp.

39 F. Supp. 2d 974 - Kaczmarek v. Microsoft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2003
most recently cited

1 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Wright v. Associated Insurance Companies Inc. · Northern Indiana Gun & Outdoor Shows, Inc. v. City of South Bend · Early v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Incorporated v. Zeidenberg

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.

  1. “nothing inherently wrong with computer software that assumes a two-digit year entry means the Twentieth Century, particularly when the default setting is disclosed as part of the contract. Moreover, FoxPro is Y2K compliant; a developer can use the Century On feature to provide a four-digit field when a client needs an application that will process dates occurring later than December 31, 1999 ....”
    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.