Bhatla’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2014
10 federal appellate ·
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Fields v. Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. · Maritime Electric Co. v. United Jersey Bank
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the Commitment Letter Mellon stated that to secure the loan, Resort was to give Mellon a mortgage on the property and an assignment of any and all contracts or agreements of Resort to sell the units. According to the Commitment Letter, Resort also was required, inter alia: (1) to deliver to Mellon for its approval on the closing date, the complete plans and specifications for the “Improvements,” including all working drawings; (2) to give Mellon control over any funds from the purchase contracts; and (3) to deliver the actual purchase contracts for Mellon to hold in escrow. Mellon further had the right to approve any changes in the Improvements. Finally, Mellon was not required to initiate its funding until it had control over the contracts for 60 units. ... [I]t simply does not follow that by reason of a lender’s protections and power under its loan agreement, it has knowledge of the tactics used by the borrower’s employees to make sales. In fact, the purchasers have not pointed to anything in the Letter which demonstrates that Mellon took control of the Development. The provisions to which they do refer are simply standard security arrangements made by any prudent lender. We are unwilling to hold that merely because a lender requires security and approval of aspects of construction, the lender thereby takes “control” of the project. To do so would wreak havoc on the lending industry, for any lender who reasonably wished to protect itself would be forced to run the risk o”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“free to seek relief from the automatic stay and pursue their claims against those defendants,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Brown“must rely on affidavits, depositions, answers to interrogatories, or admissions on file.”
1 later decision 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.