Pearll v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2014
10 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 United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Emporia State Bank & Trust Co. v. Mounkes · Union Bank v. Wendland · Brown Wholesale Electric Co. v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America · Phoenix Title & Trust Co. v. Stewart
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Union Bank, supra, two tests are suggested as methods for analyzing whether the security of the first loan also secures a second loan when a dragnet clause is used. Under the “relationship of the loans” test, the security instrument will secure both loans where the parties’ intent to do this is inferred from the connection between the loans or from their substantially similar nature. The “reliance on the security” test determines whether the second loan relied on the original security. Under this second test, the continuing offer to secure future loans with the first security instrument is not accepted when, for example, the second loan utilizes different security.”
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.