Freeland v. Enodis Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 721 · 2008
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Stamat v. Neary (2011), First Weber Group, Inc. v. Horsfall (2013)
16 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. § 102 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 11 U.S.C. § 547 · 11 U.S.C. § 548 · 11 U.S.C. § 550 · 28 U.S.C. § 158 · 28 U.S.C. § 3302 · 28 U.S.C. § 3304
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Chapman v. AI Transport · Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trustee may avoid any transfer ... of an interest of the debtor in property ... that was made ... on or within 2 years before the date of the filing of the petition, if the debtor voluntarily or involuntarily- received less than a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for such transfer ...; and was insolvent on the date that such transfer was made ... or became insolvent as a result of such transfer; [or] was engaged in business or a transaction, or was about to engage in business or a transaction, for which any property remaining with the debtor was an unreasonably small capital; [or] intended to incur, or believed that the debtor would incur, debts that would be beyond the debtor's ability to pay as such debts matured ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he trustee can recover from any combination of the entities mentioned [in § 550 ] subject to the limitation of a single satisfaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is for the bankruptcy court to assess the credibility of witnesses and weigh evidence, and [a reviewing court] will not second guess the court’s resolution of conflicting evidence”). Moreover, it is worth noting that it is clear from Bruckner's testimony that the purpose of the transfer was not to save filing fees but to make the bankruptcy easier to administer (and thus cheaper) and conform to the way he had always done business. . Fannie suggests that the LLCs’ eligibility for bankruptcy relief was”
1 later decision 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.