84 Wash. 2d 538 - Foster v. Knutson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Levers v. Rio King Land & Investment Co. (1977), 116 Wash. 2d 725 - Hemenway v. Miller (1991)
2 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee · 65 Wash. 2d 827 - Krystad v. Lau · Suring State Bank v. Giese · Smith v. Black · In re the Estate of Kiamie
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) . . . given ... to the public sufficiently in advance to allow interested bidders a reasonable opportunity to participate, (2) given to a ‘public’ reasonably expected to have an interest in the collateral to be sold and notifying the public of the exact time and place of the sale reasonably convenient to potential bidders, (3) in a manner reasonably calculated to assure such publicity that the collateral will bring the best possible price from the competitive bidding of a lively concourse of bidders.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““If drafting can do the job, this forthright statement should put the issue to rest once and for all. Nothing the secured party may do to collect his debt through the process of the law courts will operate to destroy his security interest vis-a-vis the debtor, or to impair its priority over third parties ... It would be oversanguine to hope that § 9-501 in its final version will, despite its forthrightness, put an end to the argument. The election of remedies doctrine is dear to the hearts of many lawyers and procedural reforms are always bitterly resisted. We may assume that the argument will continue to be made that the action on the debt bars a later resort to the security. It is however, hard to imagine that the argument can be successful if the provisions of §§ 9-501(1) and (5) are effectively presented to the court.” (Footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An event of default is, within reason, what the parties have agreed in their contract that it would be and not what a court, exercising its own judgment, thinks it ought to be.”
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.