Bucyrus-Erie Company v. Department of Industry Labor and Human Relations of State of Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 205 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004 · most notably Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1983), Spirt v. Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n (1982)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Jones v. Rath Packing Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing contained in any title of this Act shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of Congress to occupy the field in which any such title operates to the exclusion of State laws on the same subject matter, nor shall any provision of this Act be construed as invalidating any provision of State law unless such provision is inconsistent with any of the purposes of this Act, or any provision thereof.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(a) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the provisions of this subchapter ... shall supersede any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan described in section 1003(a) of this title ..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to exempt or relieve any person from liability, duty, penalty, or punishment provided by any present or future law of any State or political subdivision of a State, other than any such law which purports to require or permit the doing of any act which would be an unlawful employment practice under this sub-chapter.”
2 later decisions 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.