Pinner v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
805 F.2d 1258 · 1986
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Henson v. CSC Credit Services (1994), Guimond v. Trans Union Credit Information Co. (1995)
46 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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. § 1666 (§ 161 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681E · 15 U.S.C. § 1681I · 15 U.S.C. § 1681N · 15 U.S.C. § 1681O
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · 390 So. 2d 196 - Cangelosi v. SCHWEGMANN BROS., ETC. · Martell v. Boardwalk Enterprises, 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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowingly and intentionally committed an act in conscious disregard for the rights”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the completeness or accuracy of any item of information contained in a consumer's file at a consumer reporting agency is disputed by the consumer and the consumer notifies the agency directly of such dispute, the agency shall reinvestigate ... and record the current status of the disputed information, or delete the item from the file....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In each case where punitive damages have been allowed the defendant’s conduct involved willful misrepresentations or concealment. ‡ ‡ ‡ $ [Defendant’s] conduct in this case in no way resembles [such] actions ... [Defendant] promptly furnished plaintiff with a copy of his credit report when he requested one. No effort was made to conceal anything ... Under the plain language and legislative history of § 1681n, punitive damages are appropriate only where the violation has been willful ... But here there is simply nothing to even suggest that [Defendant] willfully set out to do [Plaintiff] harm. There is no evidence that they knowingly and intentionally committed an act in conscious disregard for the rights of others ... The facts and controlling law mandate that the punitive damage award be vacated.”
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.