Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P. A. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 41 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 396 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2010), Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2010)
122 federal appellate · 41 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMilavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 526 (§ 227 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 528 (§ 229 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on United States v. Salerno · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Upjohn Company v. United States · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 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 396 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to correct perceived abuses of the bankruptcy system.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“required disclosures are intended to combat the problem of inherently misleading commercial advertisements”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contrary to [the Act's] plain meaning and would produce an absurd result,”
2 later decisions 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.