No. 04-2390’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
7 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Boggs v. Boggs · American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Ass'n v. United States Lines, Inc. · United States v. Bestfoods · in Re: William O. Gendreau
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.
“(i) does not require a plan to provide any type or form of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the plan, (ii) does not require the plan to provide increased benefits (determined on the basis of actuarial value), and (iii) does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee under another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic relations order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, in Samaroo , we determined that the decree evidenced an intention to divide only property rights existing at the time of the divorce, not an intention to give the ex-wife an interest in post-divorce earnings. Second, we concluded that the decree only gave the ex-wife an entitlement to benefit payments when they were paid to the participant rather than 'conveying to her a portion of [her ex-husband's] interest in the plan.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here was no question that [the plaintiff] could have enforced her right to receive that fifty percent interest on or after [her ex-husband's] fiftieth birthday (the date the pension became payable), separate and apart from [her ex-husband's] election regarding the remaining fifty percent.”
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.