in contemplation of bankruptcy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 472 - Conrad v. Pender · 1933Most cited · 212 citing opinions
the controlling question is with respect to the state of mind of the debtor and whether the thought of bankruptcy was the impelling cause of the transaction
How often courts cite the case defining “in contemplation of bankruptcy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “in contemplation of bankruptcy” — 212 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.