Orix Credit Alliance, Inc. v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 535 · 1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 301 · 47 U.S.C. § 307 · 47 U.S.C. § 310
Relies on Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · STEPHENS INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James R. McCLUNG, Trustee in Bankruptcy, Etc., Defendant-Appellee · In re Tak Communications, Inc. · In Re Ridgely Communications, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e see no reason why the proceeds should not be considered ‘general intangibles,’ therefore subject to perfection prior to sale. Indeed, a contrary outcome would mean that the distinction between private and public interests in FCC license proceeds, outlined in In re Ridgely and In re Cheskey, would have no meaning and the private interests would be devoid of value. A security interest in proceeds that could not be perfected until after foreclosure and sale of the license would, in almost every circumstance, be primed by IRS liens and claims of other creditors. The fact that in the present case the actual dollar proceeds from the sale of the licenses were generated only after the sale ... is immaterial. A creditor may obtain a security interest in the proceeds of the sale of an FCC license, and such an interest constitutes a ‘general intangible’ that may be perfected prior to sale of the license.”
1 later decision 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.