Johnson v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
305 F.3d 1107 · 2002
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 38 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich, L.P.A. (2010), Clark v. Capital Credit & Collection Services, Inc. (2006)
54 federal appellate · 38 district · 9 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 District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews
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 163 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 in any action brought under this sub-chapter if the debt collector shows by a preponderance of 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the federal courts are called upon to interpret state law, the federal court must look to the rulings of the highest state court, and, if no such rulings exist, must endeavor to predict how that high court would rule.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] debt collector may not use unfair or unconscionable means to collect or attempt to collect any debt”
4 later decisions 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.