reasonably equivalent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 511 U.S. 531 - BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation · 1994Most cited · 2,104 citing opinions
approximately equivalent," or "roughly equivalent." One could, wé suppose, torture it into meaning "as close to equivalent as can reasonably be expected" — in which event even a vast divergence from equivalent value would be permissible so long as there is good reason for it.
How often courts cite the case defining “reasonably equivalent”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonably equivalent” — 2,073 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.