Harper v. Wheatley Implement Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably First Nat. Bank of Crossett v. Griffin (1992), Viking Ins. Co. of Wisconsin v. Jester (1992)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Universal C. I. T. Credit Co. v. Rone · Brady v. Alken, Inc. · American Exchange Trust Co. v. Trumann Special School District · Carter v. Ryburn Ford Sales, Inc. · Romer v. Leyner
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section] 85-9-507(2) states in part: “The fact that a better price could have been obtained by a sale at a different time or in a different method from that selected by the secured party is not of itself sufficient to establish that the sale was not made in a commercially reasonable manner.” Also, whether the collateral is sold wholesale instead of retail is not necessarily determinative of commercial unreasonableness. . .Any difference between the fair market value and the price actually received, however, is ordinarily a material consideration, but this fact must be examined in light of all aspects of the sale to determine commercial reasonableness.”
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.