Doe v. Myspace, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.3d 413 · 2008
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Nemet Chevrolet, Ltd. v. Consumeraffairs.com, Inc. (2009), Gentilello v. Rege (2010)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 47 U.S.C. § 230 (Communications Decency Act § 230)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Great Plains Trust Company v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co · Johnson v. Johnson · Batzel v. Smith · Zeran v. America Online, Inc.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'information content provider' means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]heir allegations are merely 24 No. 2017AP344 another way of claiming that MySpace was liable for publishing the communications and they speak to MySpace's role as a publisher of online third-party-generated content.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion for judgment on the pleadings under Rule 12(c) is subject to the same standard as a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6).”
3 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.