Mitchell v. Shepherd Mall State Bank’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 700 · 1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Brockbank v. Best Capital Corp. (2000), Hassett v. Revlon, Inc. (In Re O. P. M. Leasing Services, Inc.) (1982)
19 federal appellate · 16 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 15 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · American Card Co. v. H. M. H. Co. · R. Anthony Dubay v. Everette H. Williams, Everette H. Williams v. Rose City Development Co., Inc., Robert J. Davis v. Everette H. Williams · Evans v. Everett
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... there must be language in the instrument which ‘leads to the logical conclusion that it was the intention of the parties that a security interest be created[,]’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[t]he function of a financing statement is to put third parties on notice that the secured party who has filed it may have a perfected security interest in the collateral described.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, all boxes next to each of these types of collateral were checked. The assignee of the secured party sought to enforce a security interest in the debtor's inventory, accounts receivable and contract rights, in addition to the debtor's equipment, relying on the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Hillman
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.