Kurt Eichorn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he antitrust laws were designed to protect market-wide anticompetitive activities”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Guerrero v. Bensalem Racing Ass'n · 377 F. Supp. 3d 506 - Premier Comp Solutions LLC v. UPMC

2. “To prove a prima facie case under § [1140] a plaintiff must show (1) that an employer took specific actions (2) for the purpose of interfering (3) with an employee’s attainment of pension benefit rights ____ [0]nee a plaintiff makes a prima facie showing, the employer has the burden of articulating a legitimate non-discriminatory reason for his conduct. Then, the burden shifts back to the plaintiff to show that the employer’s rationale was pre-textual and that the cancellation of benefits was the “determinative influence” on the employer’s actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 900 F. Supp. 2d 534 - Jenkins v. Union Labor Life Ins.

3. “(1) corporate parents and their wholly owned subsidiaries have “complete unity of interest”; (2) “their objectives are common, not disparate”; and (3) their actions are “guided or determined not by two separate corporate consciousnesses, but one.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Healthamerica Pennsylvania, Inc. v. Susquehanna Health System