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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”

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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.