First National Bank, Cortez v. First Interstate Bank, Riverton, N.A.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2026
1 federal appellate · 5 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 49 U.S.C. § 44107 · 49 U.S.C. § 44108
Relies on Philko Aviation, Inc. v. Shacket · Rapaport v. United States · Clovis National Bank v. Harmon · Hendrickson v. Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. · National Bank of Eastern Arkansas v. General Mills, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the business purpose inculcated in filing statutes is to permit continued business transactions with ascertainable knowledge of risk factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“purpose of chattel security filing statutes is to provide notice, and any interpretive analysis should accord with that purpose.”
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.