Brines v. XTRA Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
304 F.3d 699 · 2002
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Massachusetts v. Morash · Donovan v. Dillingham · Sprague v. General Motors Corp. · Bartholet v. REISHAUER A.G.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can be evidence of what a contract requires, see, e.g., UCC § 1-205; Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 223 (1981); Frank Novak & Sons, Inc. v. Sommer & Maca Industries, Inc., 182 Ill.App.3d 781, 131 Ill.Dec. 325, 538 N.E.2d 700, 703-05 (1989)—can even, under the rubric of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he normal understanding of severance pay (when not provided for in a written plan), as of bonuses, is that it is at the discretion of the employer; there is nothing here to upset that understanding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not to explicate a contract but to create one.”
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.