In the Matter of George William Jones and Grace Eilene Joness Appeal of Ward W Miller Trustee’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 29 114 75276 Yonikus Yonikus, Thomas Southtrust Bank of Alabama Na v. Thomas
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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. § 541
Relies on Butner v. United States · United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc. · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n · Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The commencement of a case under section 301, 302, or 303 of this title creates an estate. Such estate is comprised of all the following property, wherever located and by whomever held: (1) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c)(2) of this section, all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hatever rights a debtor has in property at the commencement of the case continue in bankruptcy — no more, no less. Section 541 is not intended to expand the debtor’s rights against others more than they exist at the commencement of the ease.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re: Cybergenics Corporation, Debtor the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Cybergenics Corporation, on Behalf of Cybergenics Corporation, Debtor in Possession v. Scott Chinery L&s Research Corporation First Union National Bank of North Carolina Banque Indosuez Sunamerica Life Insurance Company Lincolnshire Management Inc Lincolnshire Equity Fund, L.P · 892 F. Supp. 1134 - Mayflower Transit, Inc. v. Ann Arbor Warehouse Co.“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”
3 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.