Liggins v. May Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2005
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Liggins v. May Co. · Slough v. Federal Trade Commission
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that it is a deceptive and unconscionable act or practice as defined in R.C. 1345.02 and 1345.03 for a supplier, in the process of collecting or attempting to collect upon a claim of debt arising from a consumer transaction, to use any state ment or notice which simulates an official document, which falsely represents or implies that it is officially authorized, issued, or approved; or which falsely represents the status of any legal proceedings or other facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“false statements of fact, false statements or implications about what [would] happen if the consumer fail[ed] to satisfy the claim, and misrepresentations about the law,”
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.