Picht v. Hawks’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.3d 446 · 2001
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 16 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Johnson v. Riddle (2002), Nielsen v. Dickerson (2002)
12 federal appellate · 16 district · 2 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Baker v. G. C. Services Corp. · Yeldell v. Tutt · Sommers v. Thomas · Duffy v. Landberg
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] debt collector may not be held liable ... if the debt collector shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the violation was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adapted to avoid any such error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector ... [,] a debt collector may not communicate, in connection with the collection of any debt, with any person other than the consumer, his attorney, a consumer reporting agency if otherwise permitted by law, the creditor, the attorney of the creditor, or the attorney of the debt collector.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have previously addressed the use of the bona fide error defense in cases of mistake in legal judgment and concluded that reliance on the advice of counsel or a mistake about the law is not protected by the bona fide error defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Stupar
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.