Riley v. Meba Pension Trust’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 968 · 1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Dedham Water Co. v. Cumberland Farms Dairy, Inc. (1992), Hurn v. Retirement Fund Trust of Plumbing Heating and Piping Industry of Southerncalifornia (1981)
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Langnes v. Green · Messenger v. Anderson · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · Wisconsin v. Illinois
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Riley I "). Judge Friendly, writing for the panel, stated that Riley, who retired before January 1976, had a claim pursuant to ERISA for those monthly suspensions of his pension payments which occurred after that date. Cohen contends that Riley I establishes that an employee who retired before January 1976 has a claim under ERISA if his benefits are cut off after that date. 3 In fact, Riley I concerned neither the effective dates nor the applicability of Sec. 1053(a). The issue before the court was the related but different question when Riley's benefits were terminated. Indeed, the parties raised the retroactivity problem for the first time when the case was appealed again after remand. Affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment against the plaintiff-retiree, the court noted, "[w]e did not decide on the first appeal that a member of a pension plan who had taken early retirement was entitled to the protection of Sec. 203 of ERISA with respect to forfeitability; we simply assumed this since no one had argued otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Martin's“(A) the time a plan participant attains normal retirement age under the plan, or (B) the later of (i) the time a plan participant attains age 65, or (ii) the 10th anniversary of the time a plan participant commenced participation in the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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