Scharf v. BMG Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1991), State v. Verde (1989)
1 district · 148 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 11 Utah 2d 389 - Charlton v. Hackett · Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates · FMA Financial Corp. v. Pro-Printers · Hal Taylor Associates v. Unionamerica, Inc. · Betenson v. Call Auto & Equipment Sales, 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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the statutory standard of commercial reasonableness cannot be measured with a bright-line test, whether any particular sale is commercially reasonable is to be determined on a case-by-case basis. That determination depends on whether the circumstances of the sale and the manner and business context in which it occurred support a conclusion that the sale was conducted in a commercially reasonable manner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e accord conclusions of law no particular deference, but review them for correctness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Disposition of the collateral may be by public or private proceedings and may be made by way of one or more contracts. Sale or any other disposition may be as a unit or in parcels and at any time and place and on any terms but every aspect of the disposition including the method, manner, time, place and terms must be commercially reasonable. Unless collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market, reasonable notification of the time and place of any public sale or reasonable notification of the time after which any private sale or other intended disposition is to be made shall be sent by the secured party to the debtor, if he has not signed after default a statement renouncing or modifying his right to notification of sale.... The secured party may buy at any public sale and if the collateral is of a type customarily sold in a recognized market or is of a type which is the subject of widely distributed standard price quotations he may buy at private sale.”
3 later decisions 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.