Shorts v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2020
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692B (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692G (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on Watt v. Western Nuclear, Inc. · Zimmerman v. HBO Affiliate Group · Aulston v. United States · 736 F. Supp. 1289 - Holmes v. Telecredit Service Corp. · Poverty Flats Land & Cattle Co. v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff has never had a contractual arrangement of any kind with any of the defendants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.