Burgess v. G’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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

1. “As of the date the Debtor filed his bankruptcy petition; he may have had, at most, an expectation that Congress would enact legislation authorizing crop disaster payments to farmers affected by the weather conditions in 1999, but there was no assurance that Congress would authorize such payments or that the Debtor would qualify for them if they were authorized. It was equally likely that Congress would not pass such relief legislation. Such an expectancy (or “hope” ...) does not rise to the level of a “legal or equitable interest” in property of the estate under 11 U.S.C. § 541 (a)(1).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bracewell v. Kelley (In Re Bracewell)

2. “[he] had no legal or equitable right to [the payment] at the commencement of [his] bankruptcy case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burgess v. G

3. “all ... property, wherever located and by whomever held.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burgess v. G