Downs v. World Color Press’s Empirical Analysis
214 F.3d 802 · 2000
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Black v. TIC Investment Corp. · Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield United · Coleman v. Nationwide Life Insurance Company · Pohl v. National Benefits Consultants, 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of ERISA's purposes is to protect the financial integrity of pension and welfare plans by confining benefits to the terms of the plans as written, thus ruling out oral modifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the estoppel doctrine does not override the ... rule proscribing oral modification of an ERISA plan”
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.