In the Matter Of: Lewis C Leonard Appeal Of: Robert Barker and Theodore Lieblich’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Helms v. Roti (In Re Roti) (2002), Grochocinski v. Zeigler (In Re Zeigler) (2005)
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 11 U.S.C. § 544
Relies on Butner v. United States · Connecticut v. Doehr · Straton v. New · Moore v. Bay Estate of Sassard & Kimball · Metcalf Brothers Company v. Benjamin Barker Jr
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 544(b) ... gives the Trustee the power to ‘avoid any transfer of an interest of the debtor in property ... that is voidable under applicable law by [an unsecured creditor]’.... In other words, if any unsecured creditor could reach an asset of the debtor outside bankruptcy, the Trustee can use § 544(b) to obtain that asset for the estate.... [Appellants] complain that the Trustee has not articulated the specific creditor who could set aside [the alleged fraudulent transfer], but a trustee need not do so. Thirteen unsecured claims have been filed; the Trustee can assume the position of any one of them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he trustee may avoid any transfer of an interest of the debtor in property or any obligation incurred by the debtor that is avoidable under applicable law by a creditor holding an unsecured claim that is allowable under | 502 of this title ... (emphasis ours)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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