United States of America Ex Rel Lynne Gebert’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Carnegie v. United States · Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States Ex Rel. Stevens · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York
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.
“all of the debtors’ legal and equitable interests are transferred to the bankruptcy estate at the time the bankruptcy petition is filed. The property of a bankruptcy estate is ‘broadly defined,’ and encompasses conditional, future, speculative, and equitable interests of the debtor. Most importantly, the property of the bankruptcy estate includes all causes of action that the debtor could have brought at the time of the bankruptcy petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“protect governmental matters that are made confidential by statute,”
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.