Johnson v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.3d 723 · 2006
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich, L.P.A. (2010), Beck v. Maximus, Inc. (2006)
12 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 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 Lewis v. ACB Business Services, Inc. · Johnson v. Riddle · Hutchinson v. Pfeil · Jenkins v. Heintz · Kort v. Diversified Collection Services, 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 63 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 subchapter 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.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The first step is whether the debt collector 'maintained'- i.e. , actually employed or implemented-procedures to avoid errors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the bona fide prong and the procedures prong will often merge”
3 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.