Luker v. Reeves (In re Reeves)’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Liebersohn v. Internal Revenue Service (In re C.F. Foods, L.P.) (2001), Leonard v. First Commercial Mortgage Co. (In Re Circuit Alliance, Inc.) (1998)
1 district · 1 state decisions
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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Edwards · Elscint, Inc. v. First Wisconsin Financial Corp. · Ns Garrott Sons Ns Garrott Sons v. Union Planters National Bank of Memphis & Ns Garrott & Sons Ns Garrott & Sons · Salem Mortgage Company Kelley v. Nodine B & B · Abramowitz Dds v. Palmer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“550. Liability of transferee of avoided transfer. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, to the extent that a transfer is avoided under section 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, 553(b), or 724(a) of this title, the trustee may recover, for the benefit of the estate, the property transferred, or, if the court so orders, the value of such property, from— (1) the initial transferee of such transfer or the entity for whose benefit such transfer was made; or (2) any immediate or mediate transferee of such initial transferee. (b) The trustee may not recover under section (a)(2) of this section from— (1) a transferee that takes for value, including satisfaction or securing of a present or antecedent debt, in good faith, and without knowledge of the voidability of the transfer avoided; or (2) any immediate or mediate good faith transferee of such transferee. (d) The trustee is entitled to only a single satisfaction under subsection (a) of this section.”
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.