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Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 13 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 1188 - Law v. Siegel (2014), Dalton v. Internal Revenue Service (1996)
15 federal appellate · 13 district · 7 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. · Taylor v. Freeland & Kronz · Doerr v. Doerr · Segal v. Rochelle
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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every conceivable interest of the debtor, future, nonpossessory, contingent, speculative, and derivative, is within the reach of § 541.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘[T]he term ‘property’ has been construed most generously and an interest is not outside its reach because it is novel or contingent or because enjoyment must be postponed’ ... A debtor’s contingent interest in future income has consistently been found to be property of the bankruptcy estate ... In fact, every conceivable interest of the debtor, future, nonpossessory, contingent, speculative, and derivative, is within the reach of § 541.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.