Ucc v. J Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Co. v. City of Duluth (In Re Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Co.) (1989), CIT Group/Sales Financing Inc. v. Lark (1995)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Cooper v. Cherokee Village Development Co. · Tucker v. Paxson Machine Co. · Industrial Packaging Products Co. v. Fort Pitt Packaging International, Inc. · Clune Equipment Leasing Corp. v. Spangler · Skinner v. Tober Foreign Motors, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a lease is intended as security is to be determined by the facts of each case; however, (a) the inclusion of an option to purchase does not of itself make the lease one intended for security, and (b) an agreement that upon compliance with the terms of the lease the lessee shall become or has the option to become the owner of the property for no additional consideration .or for a nominal consideration does make the lease one intended for security.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(2) Where one of the following provisions of this Act specifies the applicable law, that provision governs and a contrary agreement is effective only to the extent permitted by the law (including the conflict of laws rules) so specified: ... Policy and scope of the Articles on Secured Transactions. Sections 9-102 and 9-103.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] fundamental purpose of Article 9 is ... to create commercial certainty and predictability by allowing third party creditors to rely on the specific perfection and priority rules that govern collateral within the scope of Article 9.”
2 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.