148 Mich. App. 40 - Whitcraft v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably William Wilcox Do Pc Employees' Defined Benefit Pension Trust v. United States (1989), 249 Mich. App. 288 - Martin v. City of East Lansing (2002)
3 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) governs the sale of goods, where specific goods involved are automobiles, the UCC’s provisions must be reconciled with those of the Michigan Vehicle Code (MVC). The UCC does not govern the means by which automobile ownership is transferred except perhaps where the MVC contains no applicable law.... The MVC preempts the UCC in regard to transfers of ownership.””
2 later decisions 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.