Dart v. Craigslist, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 42 U.S.C. § 3604 (§ 804 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 47 U.S.C. § 230 (Communications Decency Act § 230)
Relies on City of Erie v. Pap's A. M. · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. · 213 Ill. 2d 351 - City of Chicago v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp. · In re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation · 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A website operator can be both a service provider and a content provider: If it passively displays content that is created entirely by third parties, then it is only a service provider with respect to that content. But as to content that it creates itself, or is “responsible, in whole or in part” for creating or developing, the website is also a content provider. Thus, a website may be immune from liability for some of the content it displays to the public but be subject to liability for other content.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Craigslist created the categories, but its users create the content of the ads and select which categories their ads will appear in.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly `arranges' meetings for the purpose of prostitution and `directs' people to places of prostitution,”
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.