Denny's, Inc. v. Cake’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]reliminary and permanent injunctions barring [the Commissioner] from taking any action to enforce California law against [Denny's] with regard to the Plan and the Trust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employee is terminated without having taken off his vested vacation time, all vested vacation shall be paid to him as wages”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that an employment contract or employer policy shall not provide for forfeiture of vested vacation time upon termination.”
2 later decisions 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.