Mead Corporation v. Be Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
131 federal appellate · 35 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 344 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. LTV Corp. (1990)
131 federal appellate · 35 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTilley v. Mead Corp. (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 403 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1301 (§ 4001 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1341 (§ 4041 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1344 (§ 4044 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Blum v. Stenson · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 344 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all other nonforfeitable benefits under the plan,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“attach decisive significance to the unexplained disappearance of one word from an unenacted bill because 'mute intermediate legislative maneuvers’ are not reliable indicators of congressional intent.” Mead Corp. v. Tilley, 490 U.S. 714 , 723, 109 S.Ct. 2156 , 104 L.Ed.2d 796 (1989) (emphasis added) (quoting Trailmobile Co. v. Whirls, 331 U.S. 40 , 61, 67 S.Ct. 982 , 91 L.Ed. 1328 (1947)). We also recognize that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]or a court to attempt to answer these questions without the views of the agencies responsible for enforcing ERISA, would be to 'embar[k] upon a voyage without a compass.'”
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.