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nullities and vulnerable collaterally

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Definitions from Case Law

From 308 U.S. 433 - Kalb v. Feuerstein · 1940Most cited · 562 citing opinions

Congress, because its power over the subject of bankruptcy is plenary, may by specific bankruptcy legislation create an exception to that principle and render judicial acts taken with respect to the person or property of a debtor whom the bankruptcy law protects nullities and vulnerable collaterally.

How often courts cite the case defining “nullities and vulnerable collaterally”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “nullities and vulnerable collaterally” — 999 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.