Maxcess, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 1337 · 2005
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably FindWhat Investor Group v. FindWhat.com (2011), SFM Holdings Ltd. v. Banc of America Securities, LLC (2010)
10 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Greenfield v. Philles Records, Inc. · Horsley v. Feldt · Day v. Taylor · John J. Kassner & Co. v. City of New York · Green Leaf Nursery v. Ei Dupont De Nemours and Company
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] document outside the four corners of the complaint may still be considered if it is central to the plaintiff's claims and is undisputed in terms of authenticity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Franchise Agreement and the construction thereof shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the law of the chosen forum contravenes strong public policy.”
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.