23952o Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2016
5 district ·
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
Relies on Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. LTV Corp. · Hughes Aircraft Co. v. Jacobson · LOCKHEED CORP. Et Al. v. SPINK · Gluck v. Unisys Corp. · Ashenbaugh v. Crucible Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n amending a plan, the employer is acting as a settlor[,]”
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.