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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
You're overthinking it. If the "act" of reaching over the line also includes contact with the ball or the inbounder, call the more severe penalty. Only if the the act of reaching over does not include contat do you enforce the "breaking the plane" provisions. Do not pick nits about the timing and that the ball became dead instantaneously when the plane was broken.
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Best advice to be given for a long, long time. I'm wondering if we could generalize this, make it into a philosophy, and teach it as an interpretive law. But then what would the mods have to moderate all day, except the spam and VI?