Bishop v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 516 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hensley Manufacturing, Inc. v. Propride, Inc. (2009), Total Benefits Planning Agency, Inc. v. Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield (2008)
6 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1113 (§ 413 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority · Association of Cleveland Fire Fighters v. City of Cleveland · Clay v. United Parcel Service, Inc. · Caputo v. Pfizer, Inc.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is apparent from the face of the complaint that the limit for bringing the claim[s] has passed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knew what representations had been made to them by Lucent officials, on which they allegedly relied in deciding to retire early; knew the offering of enhanced benefits in the 2001 [Voluntary Retirement Program] was inconsistent with the representations; and knew, in retrospect, that they had been misled by these representations into believing that something that did come to pass would not. It thus appears from the face of the complaint that plaintiffs had actual knowledge of the facts of transaction comprising the wrong complained of ...”
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.