In Re Penfil’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2011
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. § 549
Relies on Northrip v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n · Jenkins v. Peet (In Re Jenkins) · In Re Wilson · Cramer v. Metropolitan Savings & Loan Assoc. · In Re Murphy
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.
“Where real estate of the bankrupt or in which the bankrupt has an interest is located outside of the county in which the bankruptcy proceeding is pending, it is possible for a fraudulent bankrupt to sell the real estate, or his interest therein, to an innocent purchaser who has no knowledge, or reasonable means of knowledge, of the pendency of the bankruptcy proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Obviously, foreclosing mortgagees are not the intended beneficiaries [of § 549(c)]. For these reasons, a foreclosing mortgagee can not claim to have parted with the present fair equivalent value necessary to give it protection under this part of § 549(c).”
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.