Gonzalez v. Kay’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.3d 600 · 2009
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Morgan v. Swanson (2011), Wolcott v. Sebelius (2011)
21 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Miller v. Fenton · Miller v. Wolpoff & Abramson, L.L.P. · Clomon v. Jackson
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim has facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he false representation of ... the character, amount, or legal status of any debt”); § 1692e(10) (prohibiting “[t]he use of any false representation or deceptive means to collect or attempt to collect any debt or to obtain information concerning a consumer”); § 1692j(a) (prohibiting the use of forms that create “the false belief in a consumer that a person other than the creditor of such consumer is participating in the collection of or in an attempt to collect a debt”); and § 1692f (prohibiting”
3 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.