McCready v. eBay, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.3d 882 · 2006
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Tamayo v. Blagojevich (2008), Pugh v. Tribune Co. (2008)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681A · 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) · 15 U.S.C. § 1693 · 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · State v. Simpson · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 · from the majority“any indication of irregularity sufficient to put [the provider] on notice that the [SCA process] was 'phony.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Leopold“any false, deceptive, or misleading representation or means in connection with the collection of any debt.”
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.