CA PARTNERS v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

41 state decisions

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The term “debt collector” means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.M. Arpad Lamell v. OneWest Bank, FSB, a Foreign Corporation

2. “and of the few references in the billing statement to particular causes of action, most refer to claims for which attorney's fees are not recoverable. There is no evidence that the fees cannot be segregated. To the contrary, here, as in Chapa ,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Home Comfortable Supplies, Inc. v. Joshua Cooper, Travis Bonner, Cooper & Carville, Inc.

3. “when the causes of action involved in the suit are dependent upon the same set of facts or circumstances and thus are `intertwined to the point of being inseparable.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Lesikar