Brown v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2006
1 district · 13 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 28 U.S.C. § 2001
Relies on Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney · Madruga v. Superior Court of State of California in and for San Diego County · Begelfer v. Najarian · Greer v. Zurich Insurance Company · Tanenbaum v. Economics Laboratory, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he principal test whether a transaction comes under this Article is: is the transaction intended to have effect as security?. . .When it is found that a security interest as defined in Section 1-201(37) was intended, this Article applies regardless of the form of the transaction or the name by which the parties may have christened it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to allow fishermen to take advantage of the value of their permits if they no longer wish to participate in the fishery, but to prevent the forced loss of livelihood that would result from court-ordered sales of permits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grunert“comprehensive procedure for the foreclosure of a preferred ship's mortgage, the sale of the vessel and any resulting deficiency”
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.