Maness v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.2d 1264 · 1975
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Blau v. Del Monte Corporation (1985), Miles v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund Employee Pension Benefit Plan (1983)
35 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Griggs Equipment, Inc. · 166 F. Supp. 346 - Ruth v. Lewis · Arthur Brune v. Charles J. Morse · Hayes v. Morse
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the Trustees impose a standard not required by the pension plan itself, this court has stated that such action 'would result in an unwarranted and arbitrary construction of the Plan.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Break In Service, within the meaning of the Plan, shall occur if an employee is not in covered employment for a period of five consecutive years between February 1, 1955, and April 1, 1969, ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Continuous Service as an Employee under a Collective Bargaining Agreement shall mean accumulated years of employment prior to retirement calculated from the employee’s last employment or re-employment date following the last break in service and excluding years of service not covered under a collective bargaining agreement.”
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.