Almeida v. Amazon.com, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.3d 1316 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United Technologies Corp. v. Mazer (2009), Johnson v. Arden (2010)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Relies on Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. · Batzel v. Smith · American Civil Liberties Union v. Barnes · Zeran v. America Online, Inc. · Harbert International, Inc. v. James
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The majority of federal circuits have interpreted the CDA to establish broad `federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress recognized the threat that tort-based lawsuits pose to freedom of speech in the new and burgeoning Internet medium.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.