Chatman v. GC Services, LP’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 district ·
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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. § 1692B (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692D (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692E (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692K (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Pulliam Investment Co. v. Cameo Properties · Marcus v. BMW of North America, LLC · Hayes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · 424 F. Supp. 2d 643 - Foti v. NCO Financial Systems, 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“communicating with any person other than the consumer for the purpose of acquiring location information about the consumer shall ... only if expressly requested, identify his employer [and shall] not state that such consumer owes any debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rests on a clear minority interpretation of the FDCPA’s definition of ‘communication’ ”); see also Lee v. Robinson, Raegan & Young, PLLC, No. 3:14-CV-0748, 2015 WL 328323 , at (M.D.Tenn. Jan. 26, 2015) (noting split). However,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is nothing more than a creative attempt to avoid the clear mandates of Section 1692d(6) and 1692e(11).”
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.