Ricky Wayne Bracewell v. Walter W. Kelley

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that under § 541(a)(6) the “proceeds must be ‘of or from the property of the estate’”
• holding that post-petition federal agricultural assistance was not “proceeds”
• explaining that “[t]he Segal de- cision,” which held that novel and contingent interests could enter a debtor’s bankruptcy estate, “told us how to define property under the old bankruptcy code, before it was amended in 1978”
• “[T]he property of the debtor’s estate is property the debtor had when the bankruptcy case commences, not property he acquires thereafter.”
• under § 541(a)(1), “property of the [bankruptcy] estate is property the debtor had when the bankruptcy case commence[d], not property he acquires thereafter’
• “The § 541(a)(1) definition, with its explicit temporal limitation, controls our analysis rather than Segal’s test.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).