Bloom v. Hilty’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1999 · most notably Langley v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1987), Thompson v. United States (1969)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Persons who tahe priority over unper-fected security interests; ‘lien creditor.’ (a) * * * an unperfected security-interest is subordinate to the rights of * * ⅜ (2) a person who becomes a lien creditor without knowledge of the security interest and before it is perfected * ⅞ *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), an unperfected security interest is subordinate to the rights of ... (b) a person who becomes a lien creditor without knowledge of the security interest and before it is perfected. [ N.J.S.A. 12A:9-301.]”
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.