Yasuna v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Holland v. Hannan (1983), Williams v. Gerstenfeld (1986)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · The Washington Post Company v. Eugene J. Keogh · Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although the transaction may involve both a negotiable instrument (promissory note) and a trust deed, liability of the maker-mortgagor \i.e., Madeoy and Vaughn] rests on the underlying debt”). 7 . The deposition testimony of Ms. Vaughn raises serious questions about the manner in which the transfer was conducted by Larkins. Ms. Vaughn herself characterized the transaction as a “mock settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Deeds of Trust are viewed as generally equivalent to common law mortgages, a mortgage being by definition an interest in property given as security for the payment of a debt. Under the law of mortgages, a notion of fundamental importance is “that the security is inseparable from the obligation” for the mortgage’s “sole function is to serve as security for the performance of the obligation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Deeds of trust are viewed as generally equivalent to common law mortgages, a mortgage being by definition an interest in property given as security for the payment of a debt.”
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.