Scott v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
964 F.2d 314 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Heintz v. Jenkins (1995), Fox v. Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (1994)
19 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Caminetti v. United States · Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc. · 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or the purpose of section § 1692f(6) of this title, such term also includes any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security interests.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e do not accept [the lawyer's] argument that he was engaged in the practice of law, not the collection of debts. We find this to be an artificial distinction. No matter what name is applied to [the lawyer's] activities, it is clear that the 'principal purpose' of his work was the collection of debt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paulemon v. Tobin
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.