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← 586 U.S. 485 - Frank v. Gaos

Frank v. Gaos’s Empirical Analysis

2019

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)

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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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[F]ederal courts lack jurisdiction if no named plaintiff has standing.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Because there remain substantial questions about whether any of the named plaintiffs has standing to sue in light of our decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins , 578 U. S. ___ , 136 S.Ct. 1540 , 194 L.Ed.2d 635 (2016), we vacate the judgment of the Ninth Circuit and remand for further proceedings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Our decision in Spokeo abrogated [a court of appeals ruling] that the violation of a statutory right automatically satisfies the injury-infact requirement whenever a statute authorizes a person to sue to vindicate that right.”
    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.