Borst v. Chevron Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 1308 · 1994
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Varity Corporation v. Howe (1996), Sprague v. General Motors Corp. (1998)
40 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 165 · 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 26 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 1012 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 26 U.S.C. § 7805 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1022 (§ 102 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 403 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Chauffeurs, Teamsters & Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Salsbury Industries v. United States
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assets of a plan shall never inure to the benefit of any employer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in ERISA ... mandates a distribution of any surplus assets on a partial termination [of a defined benefit pension plan]....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be equitably distributed to the participants who made such contributions,”
2 later decisions 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.