Pc Yonkers Inc’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 district ·

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.

1. “(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— (C) information from any protected computer; [or] ... (5)(A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer; (B) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or (C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage and loss.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. New London Assocs., LLC v. Kinetic Soc. LLC · 532 F. Supp. 2d 744 - B & B MICROSCOPES v. Armogida

2. “(a) Whoever ... (4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period; ... shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section. 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (a)(4).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc. v. Sandhu · 957 F. Supp. 2d 610 - Dresser-Rand Co. v. Jones

3. “Employers ... are increasingly taking advantage of the CFAA’s civil remedies to sue former employees and their new companies who seek a competitive edge through wrongful use of information from the former employer’s computer system.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 665 F. Supp. 2d 42 - Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Inc. v. Pullen