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In the Matter of George William Jones and Grace Eilene Joness Appeal of Ward W Miller Trustee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

67
cited by 67 later decisions
7
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

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

2201980199020002010decided

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.

  1. “(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
  2. “[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 majority
  3. “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

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