Bakker v. McKinnon’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.3d 1007 · 1998
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Dalton v. Capital Associated Industries, Inc. (2001), Samuel Myers v. The Bennett Law Offices Doug McCallon Timothy Myers (2001)
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mullins Coal Co. v. Director · Francis v. United States · Huntzinger v. United States · Bodine v. United States · Philbin v. Trans Union Corp.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To show willful noncompliance with the FCRA, [the plaintiff] must show that [the defendant] `knowingly and intentionally committed an act in conscious disregard for the rights of others,' but need not show `malice or evil motive.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the FCRA whether a credit report is a consumer report does not depend solely upon the ultimate use to which the information contained therein is put, but instead, it is governed by the purpose for which the information was originally collected in whole or in part by the consumer reporting agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Grendahl“about how they felt when appellant obtained their credit reports and violated their privacy, thereby causing them some emotional distress”
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.