secured claim
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 502 U.S. 410 - Dewsnup v. Timm · 1992Most cited · 3,196 citing opinions
only a claim for which a lien has been given as security (whether or not the security is adequate), then the prologue of § 506(d) can be reformulated as follows: "To the extent that a lien secures a claim against the debtor that is not an allowed claim secured by a lien, such lien is void.
How often courts cite the case defining “secured claim”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “secured claim” — 3,155 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.