Suter v. Goedert’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.3d 982 · 2007
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2023
3 federal appellate · 2 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. § 363 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Butner v. United States · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Roemer v. United States · Coastal Steel Corporation v. Tilghman Wheelabrator Ltd Wheelabrator-Frye Inc · Onouli-Kona Land Co. v. Estate of Richards
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(f) The trustee may sell property under subsection (b) or (c) of this section free and clear of any interest in such property of an entity other than the estate, only if— (1) applicable nonbankruptcy law permits sale of such property free and clear of such interest; (2) such entity consents; (3) such interest is a lien and the price at which such property is to be sold is greater than the aggregate value of all liens on such property; (4) such interest is in bona fide dispute; or (5) such entity could be compelled, in a legal or equitable proceeding, to accept a money satisfaction of such interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the Ninth Circuit recently noted: “Bankruptcy’s mootness rule ‘developed from the general rule that the occurrence of events which prevent an appellate court from granting effective relief renders an appeal moot, and the particular need for finality in orders regarding stays in bankruptcy.’ ” ... The policy behind mootness is “to protect the interest of a good faith purchaser ... of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he burden of establishing mootness is on the party advocating its application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Paige
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.