In Re: George D. Newpower, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

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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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) The commencement of a case under section 301, 302, or 303 of this title creates an estate. Such estate is comprised of all the following property, wherever located and by whomever held: (1) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c)(2) of this section, all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Old Trail Ltd. v. Graham (In Re Weldon Stump & Co.)

2. “Property in which the debtor holds, as of the commencement of the case, only legal title and not an equitable interest ... becomes property of the estate ... only to the extent of the debtor’s legal title to such property, but not to the extent of any equitable interest in such property that the debtor does not hold.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Superintendent of Insurance for the State of New York v. First Central Financial Corp. (In Re First Central Financial Corp.)

3. “[I]t remains good law in the state of Michigan ... long established at common law, that a thief has no title in the property that he steals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Maritime Exch. Museum