Nelson v. E’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2020
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Patterson v. Shumate · Boggs v. Boggs · Fox Valley & Vicinity Construction Workers Pension Fund v. Brown · Walton v. LaBarge · in Re: William O. Gendreau
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll persons conferred beneficiary status via a QDRO be given the same protections ERISA affords to plan participants. Those protections include ERISA’s anti-alienation provisions. Therefore, a person who acquires an interest in an ERISA plan via a QDRO can exclude that interest from a bankruptcy estate in the same way that the plan participant herself could have excluded it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an interest of the debtor in property becomes property of the estate under subsection (a)(1), (a)(2), or (a)(5) of this section notwithstanding any provision in an agreement, transfer instrument, or applicable nonbankruptcy law— (A) that restricts or conditions transfer of such interest by the debtor; or (B) that is conditioned on the insolvency or financial condition of the debt- or, on the commencement of a case under this title, or on the appointment of or taking possession by a trustee in a case under this title or a custodian before such commencement, and that effects or gives an option to effect a forfeiture, modification, or termination of the debtor’s interest in property. (2) A restriction on the transfer of a beneficial interest of the debtor in a trust that is enforceable under applica ble nonbankruptcy law is enforceable in a case under this title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person who is an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order shall be considered for purposes of any provision of this chapter a beneficiary under the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Carterbland
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.