Dutton v. Wolpoff & Abramson’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 649 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Lewis v. ACB Business Services, Inc. (1998), Swineford v. Snyder County Pennsylvania (1994)
22 federal appellate · 6 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 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) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692K (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692L (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1821
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Leary v. United States · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Lorillard v. Pons
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in all communications made to collect a debt or to obtain information about a consumer,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In our view, the language “all communications” in section 1692e(ll) is clear and unambiguous. It makes no distinction between initial and subsequent communications * * * * Consumers sometimes do not receive first notices, and thus follow-up letters may often provide them with their first notice of the debt collection process. In our view, it follows that requiring the disclosure requirements of Section 1692e(ll) in the follow-up letters furthers congressional intent to prevent the abuse of debtors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]ury verdicts can be overturned only if the record fails to contain the minimum quantum of evidence from which the jury could have rationally reached a verdict.”
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.