Snap-On Tools, Inc. v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 252 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Worldwide Web Systems Inc v. S, In Re Peaslee (2006)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama · Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Sublett · Manuel v. Pierce · Southtrust Bank of Alabama, N.A. v. Thomas
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A security interest in collateral is "purchase money" to the extent that the item secures a debt for the money required to make the purchase. If an item of collateral secures some other type of debt, e.g., antecedent debt, it is not purchase money.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nless a lender contractually provides some method for determining the extent to which each item of collateral secures its purchase money, it effectively gives up its purchase money status.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Hughes · Matter of Hillard“a statement of the issues to be presented.”
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.