Crossley v. Lieberman’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 566 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 15 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Brown v. Card Service Center (2006), Wilson v. Draper & Goldberg, P.L.L.C. (2006)
26 federal appellate · 15 district · 7 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 11 U.S.C. § 1301 · 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692E (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692K (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Crossley v. Lieberman
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`any attorney who engages in collection activities more than a handful of times per year must comply with the FDCPA,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]ate night telephone calls to consumers, calls to consumers’ employers concerning the consumers’ debt, frequent and repeated calls to consumers, disclosure of consumers’ debt to third parties, threats of legal actions on small debts where there is little likelihood that legal action will be taken, simulation of legal process, harassment, abuse, threats of seizure, and attachment and sale of property where there is little likelihood that such action will be taken.”
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.