Dennis v. BEH-1, LLC’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 1066 · 2008
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Gorman v. Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP (2009), Carvalho v. Equifax Information Services, LLC (2010)
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 1681 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681E · 15 U.S.C. § 1681I · 15 U.S.C. § 1681O
Relies on United States v. Dunkel · Greenwood v. Federal Aviation Administration · Guimond v. Trans Union Credit Information Co. · Gagnon Co., Inc. v. Nevada Desert Inn · Bird v. Glacier Electric Cooperative, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dennis [the plaintiff] testified that he hoped to start a business and that he diligently paid his bills on time for years so that he would have a clean credit history when he sought financing for the venture. The only blemish on his credit report in April 2003 was the erroneously reported judgment. According to Dennis, that was enough to cause several lenders to decline his applications for credit, dashing his hopes of starting a new business. Dennis also claims that Experian’s error caused his next landlord to demand that Dennis pay a greater security deposit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the credit report accurately reflect[s] the status of the information contained in the public records”) (citing Williams v. Colonial Bank, 826 F.Supp. 415, 418 (M.D. Ala. 1993)); Kuehling v. Trans Union, LLC, 137 Fed.Appx. 904 , 908 (7th Cir. 2005).(”
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.