541 F. Supp. 694 - Becker v. Computer Sciences Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2018
3 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Foman v. Davis · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serve[d] the dual purpose of providing a remedy for the unauthorized intrusion into an individual's privacy while serving to deter wrongful conduct by penalizing those who violate its provisions”
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.