Nelson v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.3d 710 · 2010
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1129 · 11 U.S.C. § 301 · 11 U.S.C. § 303 · 11 U.S.C. § 330 · 11 U.S.C. § 501 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. · Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila · City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons · Davis v. Federal Election Commission
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even construing the complaint in the light most favorable to Nelson, ... all of the allegations supporting Nelson’s civil conspiracy and tortious interference claims are predicated on the defendants’ participation in RTFs bankruptcy case. Because these state-law claims are so entangled with Nelson’s federal abuse of the bankruptcy process claim, the district court should have retained supplemental jurisdiction over the entire lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Nelson v. Welch“it is the well-established law of this circuit that the usual practice is to dismiss without prejudice state supplemental claims whenever all federal claims have been dismissed prior to trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We ... are unable to discern from Nelson’s complaint any theories of liability that do not rely on RTI’s allegedly improper bankruptcy filing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Nelson v. Welch
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.