No. 73--1149’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
April 1986
most recently cited
1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roark v. Lewis · Lee v. Nesbitt · Roark v. Boyle
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trustees of a pension plan established under 29 U.S.C. § 186 (c)(5) [§ 302(c)(5) of Taft-Hartley] have broad discretion in setting eligibility rules. A court should interfere only when the rule is unreasonable or its enforcement arbitrary. Slip op. at 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alvares v. Erickson
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.