adverse interest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 341 U.S. 267 - Mosser v. Darrow · 1951Most cited · 673 citing opinions
bankruptcy trustee
Equity tolerates in bankruptcy trustees no interest adverse to the trust. This is not because such interests are always corrupt but because they are always corrupting. By its exclusion of the trustee from any personal interest, it seeks to avoid such delicate inquiries as we have here into the conduct of its own appointees by exacting from them forbearance of all opportunities to advance self-interest that might bring the disinterestedness of their administration into question.
How often courts cite the case defining “adverse interest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “adverse interest” — 657 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.