In Re Vokac’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 11 U.S.C. § 502 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Soma Medical International v. Standard Chartered Bank · Robert Nelson v. Joseph Scala Sr · East Cambridge Savings Bank v. Silveira · Tedeschi v. Falvo (In Re Falvo) · Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Hanger (In Re Hanger)
Most-quoted passages
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“a lien shall be considered to impair an exemption to the extent that the sum of— (i) the lien; (ii) all other liens on the property; and (iii) the amount of the exemption that the debtor could claim if there were no liens on the property; exceeds the value that the debtor’s interest in the property would have in the absence of any liens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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