equitable subordination
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 316 U.S. 89 - Prudence Realization Corp. v. Geist · 1942Most cited · 381 citing opinions
it is for that court—not without appropriate regard for rights acquired under rules of state law—to define and apply federal law in determining the extent to which the inequitable conduct of a claimant in acquiring or asserting his claim in bankruptcy requires its subordination to other claims which, in other respects, are of the same class
How often courts cite the case defining “equitable subordination”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “equitable subordination” — 375 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.