DIRECTV, Inc. v. Budden’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.3d 521 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Jackson v. Cal-Western Packaging Corp. (2010), DIRECTV, Inc. v. Robson (2005)
16 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2512 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Forsyth v. Barr · Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v. Bismarck Lumber Co. · Robbins v. Chicago City
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who manufactures, assembles, modifies, imports, exports, sells, or distributes any electronic, mechanical, or other device or equipment, knowing or having reason to know that the device or equipment is primarily of assistance in the unauthorized decryption of satellite cable programming, or direct-to-home satellite services, or is intended for any other activity prohibited by [§ 605(a)], shall be [criminally liable]. 25”
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 . In order to combat the proliferation of illegally modified access cards, DTV periodically sends out electronic countermeasures (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person aggrieved by any violation of [§ 605(a)] or [§ 605(e)(4)] may bring a civil action in a United States district court or in any other court of competent jurisdiction.”
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.