Sepulvado’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bhatia v. Woodlands North Houston Heart Center, PLLC (2013), 711 F. Supp. 2d 426 - Smith v. HireRight Solutions, Inc. (2010)
1 district · 1 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 Pinner v. Schmidt · Stevenson v. TRW Inc. · MacArthur v. University of Texas Health Center at Tyler · Koropoulos v. Credit Bureau, Inc. · William Douglas Thompson, III v. San Antonio Retail Merchants Association
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A credit entry may be 'inaccurate' within the meaning of the statute either because it is patently incorrect, or because it is misleading in such a way and to such an extent that it can be expected to adversely affect credit decisions.”
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.