Matteson v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2004
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"six conditions for one to take free of a prior perfected security interest: "(1) The person must be a buyer in the ordinary course, "(2) who does not buy in bulk and does not take its interest as security for or in total or partial satisfaction of a pre-existing debt (that is, the buyer must give some form of `new' value), "(3) who buys from one in the business of selling goods of that kind (that is, cars from a car dealer, i.e. inventory), "(4) who buys in good faith and without knowledge that the purchase is in violation of others' ownership rights or security interests, and "(5) does not buy farm products from a person engaged in farming operations, and "(6) the competing security interest must be one `created by his seller'. "Several of these conditions come from subsection (9) of 1-201 which defines the words `buyer in ordinary course of business.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"This section states as a general rule that after collateral is sold, a security interest continues in the collateral. This general rule is subject to two exceptions: (1) where ORS 79.1010 to 79.5070 (chapter 79) otherwise provide; and (2) when the secured party authorizes the disposition. "ORS 79.3070 * * * will, in certain situations, operate to cut off a security interest." Matteson v. Harper, 297 Or. 113, 116 , 682 P.2d 766 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under which a buyer of goods can claim to take free of a security interest where a sale, exchange or other disposition of the collateral was without consent of the secured party.... Article 9-306(2) gives the court no leeway to create any other exceptions to its dictates.”
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.