Williamson v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 767 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Semar v. Platte Valley Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1986), Smith v. American Financial Systems, Inc. (1984)
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1635 (§ 125 of the Truth in Lending Act)
Relies on Smith v. Chapman · Bustamante v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · Davis v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Jones v. Fitch
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be of some significance to a reasonable consumer under the circumstances in his 'comparison shopping' for credit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he granting of a deed of trust in one’s home as security is a critical factor in a consumer credit transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“makes clear that failure to fill in the expiration date of the rescission form is a violation of the TILA.”
1 later decision 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.