Moore v. S Raine’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Kincaid v. A Watson, In Re Hall (1993)
5 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 Morton v. Mancari · Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Rubin v. United States · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury · Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Applicable nonbankruptcy law’ means precisely what it says: all laws, state and federal, under which a transfer restriction is enforceable. Nothing in the phrase ‘applicable non-bankruptcy law’ or in the remainder of § 541(c)(2) suggests that the phrase refers exclusively to state law, much less to state spendthrift trust law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Lee · In Re Suarez“Under section 401(a)(13), a trust will not be qualified unless the plan of which the trust is a part provides that benefits provided under the plan may not be anticipated, assigned (either at law or in equity), alienated or subject to attachment, garnishment, levy, execution, or other legal or equitable process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kincaid · In Re Leamon“A trust shall not constitute a qualified trust under this section [exempting ERISA trusts from federal taxation] unless the plan of which such trust is a part provides that benefits provided under the plan may not be assigned or alienated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kincaid · In Re Baker
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.