Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Cent. Pension Fund of the Int'l Union of Operating Eng'rs & Participating Emp'rs’s Empirical Analysis
571 U.S. 177 · 2014
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Catlin v. United States · Bowles v. Russell · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the pendency of a ruling on an award for [attorney] fees and costs does not prevent, as a general rule, the merits judgment from becoming final for purposes of appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an unresolved issue of attorney's fees for the litigation in question does not prevent judgment on the merits from being final”
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.