Thomas Lavella v. W. A. Boyle’s Empirical Analysis

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27 federal appellate · 11 district ·

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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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “his pension eligibility, i.e., to apply for and receive a pension upon reaching the required age, was unreasonably denied by the application of the new policy to his case, since he had met all the then extant requirements for a pension except age, and he was prevented by his physical condition from continuing to work in order to fulfill the additional condition for pension eligibility imposed by the changed policy. Our use of the term”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Short v. United Mine Workers of America 1950 Pension Trust

2. “. Lavella, who had accrued his 20 years service prior to the imposition of this additional requirement, and whose failure to work the additional years prior to the age of eligibility for his pension was due to permanent disability caused by occupational disease . . . had sufficiently vested rights in 1952 which could not be cut off by the eligibility requirements in 1953.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 476 F. Supp. 1023 - Fontecchio v. United Steelworkers of America