Izzarelli v. Rexene Products Co.’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 1506 · 1994
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Meditrust Financial Services Corporation v. The Sterling Chemicals Incorporated (1999), In Re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & ERISA (2003)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 26 U.S.C. § 404 · 26 U.S.C. § 415 (§ 2004 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1054 (§ 204 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 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. City of Bessemer City · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Doerr v. Doerr · United Families of America v. Kendrick
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n employer that decides to terminate, amend, or renegotiate a plan does not act as a fiduciary, and thus cannot violate its fiduciary duty....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Decrease of accrued benefits through amendment of the plan (1) The accrued benefit of a participant under a plan may not be decreased by an amendment of the plan other than an amendment described in section 1082(c)(8) or 1441 of this title. 57 (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a plan amendment which has the effect of— (A) eliminating or reducing an early retirement benefit or a retirement-type subsidy (as defined in regulations), or (B) eliminating an optional form of benefit, with respect to benefits attributable to service before the amendment shall be treated as reducing accrued benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in contrast to the great deference we grant the [administrator's] interpretations of the Plan, which involve contract interpretation, we accord no deference to [its] conclusions as to the controlling law”
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.