Randolph v. IMBS, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.3d 726 · 2004
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Humphries v. CBOCS West, Inc. (2007), Crawford v. LVNV Funding, LLC (2014)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 524 · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692C (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692E (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692G (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692K (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Runyon v. McCrary · Kokoszka v. Belford
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] distinction between creditors and debt collectors is fundamental to the FDCPA, which does not regulate creditors' activities at all.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a willful violation can be shown, both actual and punitive damages are available, while violations of the FDCPA generally lead to small penalties and never to punitive damages.”). 9 . Gunter, 334 B.R. at 904 (quoting Randolph, 368 F.3d at 731 and agreeing”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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 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
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.