Mrs. Geneva B. Phillips v. William J. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 52 · 1976
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Wardle v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund (1980), Daniel v. Eaton Corp. (1988)
57 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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. Bell Aerospace Co. · Danti v. Lewis · Moglia v. Geoghegan · Roark v. Lewis
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The actuarial soundness of pension funds is, absent extraordinary circumstances, too important to permit trustees to obligate the fund to pay pensions to persons not entitled to them under the express terms of the pension plan.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibility to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Reviewing the record before the trustees at the time the pension application was denied, . . . ” At 55.”
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.