Kirk Koster’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2014
1 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
Relies on Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey · Allied Structural Steel Company v. Spannaus · Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation · Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defined benefit plan entitles the members to a predetermined distribution upon retirement and to an actuarially sound plan to ensure that the plan is adequately funded to meet those distribution requirements. It does not entitle them to any use of the contributions other than to ensure the above entitlements are met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. RPEC v. Charles
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.