Wong v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 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 Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Hagans v. Lavine · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Jones v. Rath Packing Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This federal law may supersede state law to the extent state law authorizes restitution from employee benefit plans under all circumstances. Section 502(a)(2) gave the federal courts a role to play in the development of this federal law of restitution from ERISA trusts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court cannot infer a private cause of action from a statute which specifically enumerates other private causes of action in the absence of clear evidence of legislative intent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“employers who contribute to employee benefit plans do not fit in any of the four limited categories of plaintiffs in Sec. 502(e)(1).”
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.