487 F. Supp. 2d 1024 - Magee v. AllianceOne, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 district ·
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) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692G (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on Robin v. Espo Engineering Corp. · Sheila Ritchie v. Glidden Company Ici Paints World-Group Graco · Lucas v. Chicago Transit Authority · Schlosser v. Fairbanks Capital Corp. · Bilow v. Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C.
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 6 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 passagee.g. Fausz v. NPAS, Inc.“This purpose would be contravened if a creditor were unilaterally able to determine when and if an account was in default for FDCPA purposes and therefore whether the provisions of the FDCPA applied to the debt collection activities of the collection agency it hires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.