United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.3d 591 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act)
Relies on Allen v. United States · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · 134 S. Ct. 1405 - United States v. Castleman · LVRC Holdings LLC v. Brekka
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1030(a)(5)(A) [of the CFAA] prohibits intentionally damaging a computer system when there was no permission to engage in that particular act of damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information.”
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.