Nicolette v. Essenfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1991
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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a reserve is accumulated in a welfare fund, the protection and advantages provided by that reserve should, in the absence of countervailing considerations, be enjoyed by the employees on whose behalf the reserve was accumulated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in such event, reap an unintended windfall based on a transfer of membership over which [the transferred employees] had no control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Asea v. Apea“were to be held entitled to retain the entire reserve for themselves... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Asea v. Apea
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.