Kimura v. Wauford’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 federal appellate · 12 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
Relies on 26 Utah 2d 22 - Murdock v. Blake · 91 Ill. App. 2d 365 - Olsen v. Valley National Bank of Aurora · 29 Mich. App. 99 - Michigan National Bank v. Marston · Pruske v. National Bank of Commerce of San Antonio · Specter v. Specter
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has been recognized that the most important remedy available to a secured creditor is the right to take possession of the collateral following the debtor's default. A secured creditor is not required to elect a remedy. He can take any permitted action or combination of actions."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unfair to the debtor to allow a creditor to take possession at all, if the creditor never intended to dispose of the security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for the purpose of preserving the collateral or its value”
1 later decision 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.