In Re Elmer Walter Dorla Walter, Debtors. United States of America v. John J. Hunter, Trustee’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably III III v. Jc & Jc, In the Matter of Merchants Grain, Incorporated, by and Through Receiver, Edmund M. Mahern, Debtor. Appeal of Edmund M. Mahern, Trustee for Merchants Grain, Incorporated (1996)
8 federal appellate · 3 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. § 545 · 26 U.S.C. § 6323
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · United States v. National Bank of Commerce · United States v. Brosnan · Eaton v. Hobson · Hardin v. Caldwell
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trustee may avoid the fixing of a statutory hen on property of the debtor to the extent that such hen is not perfected or enforceable at the time of the commencement of the case against a bona fide purchaser that purchases such property at the time of the commencement of the case, whether or nor such a purchaser exists.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[V]alue’ is a much lower standard than ‘adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth.’ Because a bona fide purchaser is not necessarily a purchaser for purposes of Internal Revenue Code § 6323(b)(2), it follows that a .trustee standing in the shoes of a hypothetical bona fide purchaser does not fall within the protection of this statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although the term ‘bona fide purchaser’ is not defined in the Bankruptcy Code, it is generally understood to mean ‘[o]ne who has purchased property for value without notice of any defects in the title of the seller ... Thus, ‘value’ is a much lower standard than ‘adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth.’””
2 later decisions 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.