Staff Mortgage and Investment Corporation v. Wikle’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Army National Bank v. Equity Developers, Inc. (1989), 15 Collier bankr.cas.2d 1459, Bankr. L. Rep. P 71,522 in Re Golden Plan of California, Inc. State Loan Servicing, Inc. Financial Securities Agency, Inc. Mid-Central California, Inc., Debtors. Jesse Bear v. Melvyn J. Coben, Trustee of Golden Plan of California, Inc., Defendant- Al Fox v. Melvyn J. Coben, Trustee of Golden Plan of California, Inc., Defendant- Robert Ackerman v. Melvyn J. Coben, Trustee of Golden Plan of California, Inc., Defendant (1987)
3 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 Stevens v. Irwin · Heinicke Instruments Co. v. Republic Corp. · Sequeira v. Collins · Bunting v. Saltz · Lilienthal v. Ballou
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession may be by the secured party himself or by an agent on his behalf: it is of course clear, however, that the debt- or or a person controlled by him cannot qualify as such an agent for the secured party....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The notice function of UCC § 9-305 would be defeated if the Debtor, or a person under the Debtor’s control, were left in possession of the collateral;” Heinicke Instruments Company v. Republic Corporation, 543 F.2d 700, 702 (9th Cir. 1976). 20 U.C.C.Rep. 1. “Under the code, the only notice sufficient to inform all interested parties that a security interest in instruments has been perfected is actual possession by the secured party, his agent or bailee.” Huffman v. Wikle, 550 F.2d 1228, 1230 (9th Cir. 1977). 21 U.C.C.Rep. 887.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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