Kepler v. Steele (In Re Steele)’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2009
1 district ·
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 · 11 U.S.C. § 547 · 11 U.S.C. § 551
Relies on McCannon v. Marston · 58 Wis. 2d 290 - Richards v. Richards · 106 Wis. 2d 713 - Kordecki v. Rizzo · Bump v. Dahl · Home Life Insurance Co. v. Jones (In Re Jones)
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every conveyance (except patents issued by the United States or this state, or by the proper officers of either) which is not recorded as provided by law shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real estate or any portion thereof whose conveyance shall first be duly recorded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any transfer avoided under section 522, 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, or 724(a) of this title, or any lien void under section 506(d) of this title, is preserved for the benefit of the estate but only with respect to property of the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This is a second mortgage on each of the properties, and is subordinate to existing first mortgages and successor first mortgages.”
1 later decision 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.