Johnson v. U.S. Bancorp Broad-Based Change in Control Severance Pay Program’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.3d 734 · 2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2021
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · United States v. Murdock · Mansker v. TMG Life Insurance · King v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violations of U.S. Bancorp's policies forbidding an employee to `access data that you are not authorized to access,' and requiring an employee to `[e]nsure that all of your computer access is on a need-to-know basis and is limited to the information required to perform your job,' at least where such violations are knowing and willful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpret and administer the terms and conditions of the Plan, decide all questions concerning the eligibility of any persons to participate in the Plan, [and] grant or deny benefits under the Plan,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The use of any information stemming from your employment shall be restricted to that which is absolutely necessary for the legitimate and proper business purposes of U.S. Bancorp.”
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.