Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. v. Gredd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• posing the question as whether the interest transferred would have been available to satisfy other creditors and noting courts on both sides of the question
• construing the text and policy of Bankruptcy Code § 548(a)(1), the court ruled that the definition of \an interest of the debtor in property\ requires proof of harm to the bankruptcy estate
• “[Section] 548(a)(1)(A) only permits a trustee to avoid a transfer of an interest of the debtor in property when, but for the transfer, such property interest would have been available to at least one of the debtor’s creditors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. v. Gredd (In Re Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd.)
  S.D. New York· 2007-12-17· cited 132×
• Balaber-Strauss v. Town of Harrison (In Re Murphy)
  S.D. New York· 2005-07-22· cited 68×
• Finkel v. Polichuk (In re Polichuk)
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2014-02-27· cited 42×
• Gredd v. Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. (In Re Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd.)
  S.D. New York· 2002-10-07· cited 40×
• Savage & Associates, P.C. Ex Rel. Teligent, Inc. v. Mandl
  S.D. New York· 2008-01-03· cited 30×
• Silverman v. Paul's Landmark, Inc. (In Re Nirvana Restaurant Inc.)
  S.D. New York· 2006-02-24· cited 28×
• In Re Dreier LLP
  S.D. New York· 2010-04-28· cited 21×
• Gredd v. Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. (In Re Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd.)
  S.D. New York· 2002-12-20· cited 21×
• Gredd v. Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. (In Re Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd.)
  S.D. New York· 2007-01-09· cited 18×
• Ehrlich v. Commercial Factors of Atlanta
  N.D. New York· 2017-02-22· cited 15×
• Austin v. Chisick (In Re First Alliance Mortgage Co.)
  C.D. California· 2003-07-30· cited 13×
• Maxwell v. Barounis (In Re Swiontek)
  N.D. Illinois· 2007-10-03· cited 11×
• Pereira v. Dow Chemical Co. (In Re Trace International Holdings, Inc.)
  S.D. New York· 2002-12-31· cited 9×
• Buchwald v. Di Lido Beach Resort, Ltd. (In Re McCann, Inc.)
  S.D. New York· 2004-12-28· cited 8×
• Gredd v. Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. (In Re Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd.)
  S.D. New York· 2006-05-31· cited 8×
• Ivey v. First Citizens Bank & Trust Co.
  M.D. North Carolina· 2015-10-01· cited 7×
• In Re National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc.
  S.D. Ohio· 2011-04-12· cited 5×
• Cruickshank v. Dixon (In re Blast Fitness Grp., LLC)
  D. Massachusetts· 2019-04-30· cited 4×
• Osting v. Blockberger (In Re Osting)
  N.D. Ohio· 2005-11-07· cited 3×
• Unencumbered Assets v. JP Morgan Chase Bank
  S.D. Ohio· 2011-04-12· cited 3×

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Butner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-02-21· cited 3,653×
• Zinermon v. Burch
  Supreme Court· 1990-02-27· cited 3,290×
• Begier v. Internal Revenue Service
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 701×
• Segal v. Rochelle
  Supreme Court· 1966-01-31· cited 646×
• Sullivan v. Stroop
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-14· cited 408×
• Cunningham v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1924-04-28· cited 383×
• Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.)
  D. Utah· 1984-08-06· cited 144×
• Cromer Finance Ltd. v. Berger
  S.D. New York· 2001-04-17· cited 141×
• Construction Products Research, Inc. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-10-15· cited 103×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,997 United States of America v. Paul Russo, Barbara Hosman, William Petrokansky
  Second Circuit· 1996-01-11· cited 87×
• Brown v. Third National Bank (In re Sherman)
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-10-06· cited 79×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 90,286 Raizy Levitin v. Painewebber, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1998-09-29· cited 70×
• Charles W. v. Maul
  Second Circuit· 2000-06-05· cited 65×
• Wyle v. C.H. Rider & Family (In re United Energy Corp.)
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-09-13· cited 61×
• Stevenson v. J.C. Bradford & Co. (In re Cannon)
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-01-18· cited 60×
• Cromer Finance Ltd. v. Berger
  S.D. New York· 2001-12-27· cited 56×
• Tavenner v. Smoot
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-07-16· cited 54×
• In the Matter of Maple Mortgage, Inc., Debtor. John James Jenkins, Trustee for Maple Mortgage, Inc. v. Chase Home Mortgage Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-04-30· cited 51×
• In Re Kemp Pacific Fisheries, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-02-03· cited 48×
• Development Specialists, Inc. v. Hamilton Bank, N.A. (In Re Model Imperial, Inc.)
  S.D. Florida· 2000-05-16· cited 43×