Bodine’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
October 2018
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Varity Corporation v. Howe · Norman Charles Oliver v. Wayne Scott, et al. · West v. Butler · McGann v. H & H Music Co. · Spacek v. Maritime Ass'n
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a participant or beneficiary for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of an employee benefit plan ... or for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o sustain a valid [ERISA] § 510 claim, an employee must show: (1) prohibited (adverse) employer action (2) taken for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of (3) any right to which the employee is entitled.”
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.