Douglas Kimzey v. Yelp!

How courts have described this case

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

• “[S]tar rating” accompanying a user’s review was a “neu- tral tool” and did not transform Yelp! into a content pro- vider, because it was “based on rating inputs from third parties” and “user-generated” data.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Nemet Chevrolet, Ltd. v. Consumeraffairs. Com, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-12-29· cited 1,712×
• Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-05-08· cited 879×
• Boris Levitt v. Yelp! Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-09-02· cited 331×
• Batzel v. Smith
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-06-24· cited 290×
• Fair Housing Coun., San Fernando v. Roommates. Com
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-04-03· cited 279×
• Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-22· cited 223×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Accusearch Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-06-29· cited 99×
• Gentry v. eBay, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2002-06-26· cited 95×
• Larry Klayman v. Mark Zuckerberg
  D.C. Circuit· 2014-06-13· cited 88×
• Davis v. Cox
  Washington Supreme Court· 2015-05-28· cited 71×
• Jones v. Dirty World Entertainment Recordings LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2014-06-16· cited 70×
• Carafano v. metrosplash.com, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-08-13· cited 64×
• Aviation Charter, Inc. v. Aviation Research Group/us Joseph Moeggenberg
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-07-21· cited 53×
• Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp.
  E.D. New York· 2011-12-13· cited 22×
• Syngenta Seeds, Inc. v. Bunge North America, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-10-20· cited 13×