Taylor v. Bettis’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1679 · 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1965 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Plaintiffs' logic, any attorney daring to serve as defense counsel to a defendant named in a RICO action automatically could be named as a RICO defendant himself. This, of course, is untenable. Concomitantly, under these facts, accepting money in exchange for providing these traditional legal services fails to go to the heart of CCDN's alleged debt elimination and credit restoration scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A punitive damages claim is not technically an independent cause of action, but is instead dependent upon an award of compensatory damages on one of a plaintiff's other claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A]gain, this court cannot find sufficient Plaintiffs' wholly conclusory allegations ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.