Seward v. Devine

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding dismissal of action based on forum-selection clause specifying state court as appropriate forum of adjudication
• prepetition causes of action belonging to debtor become part of bankruptcy estate at commence- ment of bankruptcy proceedings
• “The bankruptcy estate encompasses all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case, . . . including any causes of action possessed by the debtor . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Crawford v. Franklin Credit Management Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2014-07-11· cited 381×
• Lerner v. Fleet Bank, N.A.
  Second Circuit· 2003-01-22· cited 253×
• Rosenshein v. Kleban
  S.D. New York· 1996-02-26· cited 89×
• Olick v. Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co.
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-27· cited 72×
• Licensed Practical Nurses, Technicians and Health Care Workers of New York, Inc. v. Ulysses Cruises, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2000-11-15· cited 34×
• GMAC Commercial Credit, LLC v. Dillard Department Stores, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2001-01-17· cited 32×
• Medoil Corp. v. Citicorp
  S.D. New York· 1990-02-07· cited 18×
• Calafiore v. Werner Enterprises, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2006-03-09· cited 12×
• In re Ross
  E.D. New York· 2016-04-14· cited 12×
• Jackson v. Rescap Borrower Claims Trust (In re Residential Capital, LLC)
  S.D. New York· 2014-10-09· cited 11×
• Mannucci v. Cabrini Medical Center (In re Cabrini Medical Center)
  S.D. New York· 2012-12-20· cited 9×
• National School Reporting Servs., Inc. v. National Schools of Ca., Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 1996-04-29· cited 6×
• In re Carroll
  E.D. California· 2018-06-06· cited 3×
• Phillips v. Audio Active Ltd.
  Second Circuit· 2007-07-24
• Speer v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2025-09-23
• Town of Newmarket v. Harvard Indus.
  D. New Hampshire· 1996-07-31

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co.
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 3,455×
• H. J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,771×
• Mercy-Memorial Hospital Corp. v. Hospital Employees' Division of Local 79
  Supreme Court· 1989-07-03· cited 168×
• Robert L. Bense v. Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1982-07-06· cited 166×
• Beauford v. Helmsley
  Second Circuit· 1989-01-13· cited 125×
• In Re Carl Cottrell and Paula Cottrell, Debtors. Carl Cottrell and Paula Cottrell v. J. Baxter Schilling, Trustee
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-06-05· cited 123×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 91,584 Avc Nederland B v. V. Atrium Investment Partnership, Pieter Kuik and Robert K. Lenting, Defendants
  Second Circuit· 1984-07-19· cited 114×
• In Re Howard's Appliance Corp., Debtor. Sanyo Electric, Inc. v. Howard's Appliance Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1989-04-25· cited 110×
• Seward v. Devine
  Second Circuit· 1989-11-01· cited 50×
• Beauford v. Helmsley
  Second Circuit· 1988-03-31· cited 22×
• Romano v. Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-06-03· cited 8×