Mobley v. AT&T Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Hall · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Carl · Lawrence Marcus Marc Kasky, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. At&t Corp., Jeffrey A. Moss, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Donna Borok Moss v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company · Alicke v. MCI Communications Corp. · Porr v. NYNEX Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“[N]o reasonable consumer would have been deceived into believing that he was being billed by the second, when his monthly statements contained no charges for calls of less than a full minute, and when common sense told him that a call of less than one minute was not free.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that ATT Corporation fraudulently misrepresented its billing practices and suppressed the fact that it rounds up to the next minute its charges for long distance telephone calls.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a call continues and, according to the filed rate doctrine, the customer's knowledge of the rates are”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.