Cook v. Hamrick’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 1692E (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on Heintz v. Jenkins · Zimmerman v. HBO Affiliate Group · Bass v. Stolper, Koritzinsky, Brewster & Neider, S.C. · Romea v. Heiberger & Associates · Brown v. Budget Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay money arising out of a transaction in which the money, property, insurance, or services which are the subject of the transaction are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, whether or not such obligation has been reduced to judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely parrot[ed] the language of § 1692a(6) to assert” a law firm was a "debt collector” and offered "no factual basis to conclude” that the law firm “regularly represents creditors in consumer or any other debt collection activities.”
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.