Odom v. Microsoft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.3d 541 · 2007
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 30 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Cafasso v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (2011), Hartman v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (2008)
18 federal appellate · 30 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 Conley v. Gibson · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · United States v. Turkette · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the time, place, and specific content of the false representations as well as the identities of the parties to the misrepresentation.”
7 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.