Rau v. Ryerson’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 1423 · 1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Vincent Cusano v. Gene Klein an Individual (2001), Neuton v. Danning (1990)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Segal v. Rochelle · Varisco v. Oroweat Food Co. (In Re Varisco) · Quarles House Apartments v. Plunkett (In Re Plunkett) · Rau v. Ryerson (In Re Ryerson)
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all legally recognizable interests although they may be contingent and not subject to possession until some future time.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) ... [A]ll legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.... [and] (6) Proceeds, product, offspring, rents, or profits of or from property of the estate, except such as are earnings from services performed by an individual debtor after the commencement of the case.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”
6 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.