Brock v. Tolkow’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. Stovall v. Meneley (2001), Louis Vuitton Malletier S.A. v. LY USA, Inc. (2012)
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
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 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Baxter v. Palmigiano · United States v. Kordel · Kirchberg v. Feenstra · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a stay of discovery would cause no serious damage to the public interest ... [because] [p]ossible mismanagement of a pension fund simply does not present the same danger to the public interest as violations that ... warrant denial of a motion for a stay ... involving] a tangible threat of immediate and serious harm to the public at large.” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.