Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that \Samsung had a duty to verify whether its employees were actually complying with the detailed instructions Samsung claims it communicated to them\
• finding that “Samsung had a duty to verify whether its employees were actually complying with the detailed instructions Samsung claims it communicated to them”
• explaining that “willfulness” can be shown 4 by the “conscious disregard” of a party’s obligations
• faulting defendant for failing to provide guidance to employees or monitor compliance
• “[C]ourts have formulated 11 adverse inference instructions that range in their level of severity.”
• “[W]hen a company or organization has a document retention policy, it “is obligated to suspend” that policy and “implement a ‘litigation hold’ to ensure the preservation of relevant documents” after the preservation duty has been triggered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  C.D. California· 2013-08-13· cited 20×
• Knickerbocker v. Corinthian Colleges
  W.D. Washington· 2014-04-04· cited 11×
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  S.D. New York· 2013-10-23· cited 9×
• Phoenix Technologies Ltd. v. VMware, Inc.
  N.D. California· 2016-07-01· cited 5×
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  New York Supreme Court· 2012-07-31· cited 4×
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Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chambers v. Nasco, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 6,250×
• Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-23· cited 2,455×
• In Re Oracle Corp. Securities Litigation
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-11-16· cited 877×
• The United States v. Hudson and Goodwin
  Supreme Court· 1812-03-14· cited 761×
• Fujitsu Limited v. Federal Express Corporation
  Second Circuit· 2001-04-20· cited 628×
• Mauricio A. Leon, M.D. v. Idx Systems Corporation, a Vermont Corporation, Mauricio A. Leon, M.D. v. Idx Systems Corporation, a Vermont Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-09-20· cited 493×
• Mark N. Silvestri v. General Motors Corporation, Dfendant-Appellee
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-11-29· cited 436×
• Michele E. Shepherd and Larue Graves v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-10-06· cited 385×
• Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC
  S.D. New York· 2003-10-22· cited 362×
• Kronisch v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1998-07-09· cited 294×
• Glover v. Bic Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-02-26· cited 209×
• Adkins v. Wolever
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-02-04· cited 196×
• Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2010-09-09· cited 175×
• Nation-Wide Check Corporation, Inc. v. Forest Hills Distributors, Inc., Nation-Wide Check Corporation, Inc. v. Forest Hills Distributors, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1982-11-15· cited 171×
• Bryant Flury v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-10-05· cited 163×
• Micron Technology, Inc. v. Rambus Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2011-05-13· cited 142×
• Goodman v. Praxair Services, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 142×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-11-10· cited 116×
• Akiona v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-07-09· cited 112×
• In Re Napster, Inc. Copyright Litigation
  N.D. California· 2006-10-25· cited 108×