Smith v. Transworld Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 1025 · 1992
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 22 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Lewis v. ACB Business Services, Inc. (1998), Clomon v. Jackson (1993)
35 federal appellate · 22 district · 3 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. § 1692 (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. § 1692G (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692K (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Pinney Dock & Transport Co. v. Penn Central Corp. · Ivy Street Corporation v. Rc Alexander
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the debt collector shall cease collection of the debt, or any disputed portion thereof, until the debt collector obtains verification of the debt or a copy of a judgment, ... and a copy of such verification or judgment ... is mailed to the consumer by the debt collector.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A debt collector may not be held liable in any action brought under this sub-chapter if the debt collector shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the violation was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adapted to avoid any such error.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““A debt collector may not use any false, deceptive, or misleading representation or means in connection with the collection of any debt. Without limiting the general application of the foregoing, the following conduct is a violation of this section: “(2) The false representation of— “(A) the character, amount, or legal status of any debt; or u ífc sjs “(8) Communicating or threatening to communicate to any person credit information which is known or which should be known to be false, including the failure to communicate that a disputed debt is disputed. ii ‡ H* ^ “(14) The use of any business, company, or organization name other than the true name of the debt collector’s business, company, or organization.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.