applicable nonbankruptcy law
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 504 U.S. 753 - Patterson v. Shumate · 1992Most cited · 2,178 citing opinions
state law" in § 541(c)(2), since consistency of usage within the same statute is to be presumed.
How often courts cite the case defining “applicable nonbankruptcy law”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “applicable nonbankruptcy law” — 2,122 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.