Freeman v. DirecTV, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.3d 1001 · 2006
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Gill v. Arab Bank, PLC (2012), 459 F. Supp. 2d 1028 - Stoebner Motors, Inc. v. Automobili Lamborghini S.P.A. (2006)
7 federal appellate · 12 district · 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2702 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2707 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 7 U.S.C. § 192
Relies on Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Central Bank of Denver Na v. First Interstate Bank of Denver Na K · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · American Tobacco Co. v. Patterson · Decker v. Advantage Fund Ltd.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny ... person aggrieved by any violation of this chapter in which the conduct constituting the violation is engaged in with a knowing or intentional state of mind may, in a civil action, recover from the person or entity ... which engaged in that violation such relief as may be appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“review[s] the matter anew, the same as if it had not been heard before, and as if no decision previously had been rendered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rafaelano v. Wilson
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.