Finnell v. Cramet, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.2d 409 · 1961
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2004
11 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Schneider v. McKesson & Robbins, Inc. · Menke v. Thompson · Hughes v. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. · 332 Ill. App. 494 - Umshler v. Umshler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellants’ so-called rights in the pension fund were actually not rights at all, but were in the nature of expectancies, and as such were subject to the terms of the instrument under which they arose. The Pension Plan, under which they arose, expressly gave the company the right to amend or terminate, in whole or in part, the Plan at any time for any reason whatsoever. In acting under this expressly reserved power, the Company and the Trustee breached no legal rights of the appellants.” (p. 413). Finnell v. Cramet, Inc., 289 F.2d 409 [6th Cir. 1961]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to modify or amend in any respect or terminate, in whole or in part, this Pension Plan at any time for any reason whatsoever * * *.”
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.