973 F. Supp. 2d 467 - Adelson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]yperlinks have long been understood to be critical to communication because they facilitate access to information. They provide visitors on one Web site a way to navigate internally referenced words, phrases, arguments, and ideas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he hyperlink is the twenty-first century equivalent of the footnote for purposes of attribution in defamation law, because it has become a well-recognized means for an author or the Internet to attribute a source”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an assertion that certain money is 'tainted' or 'dirty' carries a strongly negative connotation, but, without context, one could not say what specifically these adjectives connote”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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