Hansen v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 1214 · 1978
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Co Petro Marketing Group, Inc. (1982), Northrop v. Hoffman of Simsbury, Inc. (1997)
36 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681B · 15 U.S.C. § 1681N · 15 U.S.C. § 1681Q · 2 U.S.C. § 434 (§ 304 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971)
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rigsby · Wyandotte Transportation Co. v. United States · United States v. Patrin
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who knowingly and willfully obtains information on a consumer from a consumer reporting agency under false pretenses shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““any written, oral or other communication or any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer’s credit worthiness, credit standing, ... which is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer’s eligibility for (1) credit or insurance to be used primarily for personal family or household purposes, or (2) employment purposes, or (3) other purposes authorized under section 1681b of this title ...””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he standard for determining when a consumer report has been obtained under false pretenses will usually be defined in relation to the permissible purposes of consumer reports which are enumerated in 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681b,”
6 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.