Tepper v. Amos Fin., LLC’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.3d 364 · 2018
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. · Tito Pollice v. National Tax Funding Lp · Federal Trade Commission v. Check Investors, Inc. · Kaymark v. Bank of America, N.A. · Caprio v. Healthcare Revenue Recovery Group, LLC
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any creditor who, in the process of collecting his own debts, uses any name other than his own which would indicate that a third person is collecting or attempting to collect such debts”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“regularly seek to collect debts 'owed ... another.' " Id. at 1721 . It rejected the petitioners' arguments that either the origin of the debt or the default status of the debt had any bearing on that analysis. As to the debt's origin, it reasoned that the statutory language did not suggest that "whether the owner originated the debt or came by it only through a later purchase”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another”
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.