Culhane v. Aurora Loan Services’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.3d 282 · 2013
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 43 district · 26 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 5219a · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Baker v. Carr · Bennett v. Spear · United States v. Zannino
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mortgagor does not have standing to challenge shortcomings in an assignment that render it merely voidable at the election of one party but otherwise effective to pass legal title.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[an] assignment of [a] mortgage ... if executed before a notary public ... by a person purporting to hold the position of ... vice president ... of the entity holding such mortgage ... shall be binding upon such entity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nder Massachusetts law a mortgagor has standing only "to challenge a mortgage assignment as invalid, ineffective or void”
4 later decisions 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.