Tower v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 1161 · 1980
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 7 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Gillis v. United States Department of Health & Human Services (1985), Alcorn County Mississippi v. US Interstate Supplies Inc (1984)
25 federal appellate · 7 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1602 (§ 103 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1603 (§ 104 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 105 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Ohio v. Kentucky · Jetco Electronic Industries, Inc. v. Gardiner
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A transaction] in which the party to whom credit is offered or extended is a natural person, and the money, property, or services which are the subject of the transaction are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o determine whether the transaction was primarily consumer or commercial in nature,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The courts of appeals ... have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts of the United States.”
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.