preserving the estate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 391 U.S. 471 - Reading Company v. Brown · 1968Most cited · 833 citing opinions
the larger objective, common to arrangements, of operating the debtor's business with a view to rehabilitating it.
How often courts cite the case defining “preserving the estate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “preserving the estate” — 823 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.