Green v. Hocking’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 18 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Heintz v. Jenkins (1995), Johnson v. Riddle (2002)
13 federal appellate ·
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. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692C (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692E (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692F (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692G (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692I (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · King v. St. Vincent's Hospital · Crossley v. Lieberman · Frey v. Gangwish
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“According to Representative Annunzio, the sole sponsor of the 1986 amendment, “[t]he removal of the attorney exemption will not interfere with the practice of law by the Nation’s attorneys.” Annunzio further stated that “[o]nly collection activities, not legal activities, are covered by the act.... The act applies to attorneys when they are collecting debts, not when they are performing tasks of a legal nature.... The act only regulates the conduct of debt collectors, it does not prevent creditors, through their attorneys, from pursuing any legal remedies available to them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n examination of the [Act] in context reveals that it was not intended to govern attorneys engaged solely in the practice of law. A contrary result would produce absurd outcomes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unwilling to impose a system of strict liability that conflicts with the current system of judicial regulation.” Id. The Sixth Circuit’s position in Green is almost identical to the positions advocated by the appellees in this case and adopted by the Second Circuit, in Simmons, and Ninth Circuit, in Walls. We decline to adopt in the bankruptcy context the same positions that, in the general litigation context, failed to persuade the Supreme Court. 10 . Section 1673(a) and (a)(1) of the CCPA provide that”
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.