34 F. Supp. 2d 120 - Mattias v. Computer Sciences Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2016
5 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. § 1022 (§ 102 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Sprague v. General Motors Corp. · Hansen v. Continental Insurance · Blackie v. Maine
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conflict can exist where an SPD uses a term having a common meaning and the Plan Documents then define it more re-strietively. Conflict does not exist automatically. It will exist only where the common meaning of the term conflicts with the definition in the Plan Documents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the plan document”) and a summary for employees to read (the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.