Lovett v. Shuster’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 98 · 1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2005
5 federal appellate ·
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 Perini v. Downey · Holt v. Sarver · Francis v. Massachusetts · Shaffer v. Brooklyn Park Garden Apartments · Joseph A. Bass Company v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d)(1) For the purposes of this section, a transfer is made when such transfer becomes so far perfected that a bona fide purchaser from the debtor against whom such transfer could have been perfected cannot acquire an interest in the property transferred that is superior to the interest in such property of the transferee, but if such transfer is not so perfected before the commencement of the case, such transfer occurs immediately before the date of the filing of the petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Ewing“A security interest in ... instruments ... can be perfected only by the secured party’s taking possession ...”
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.