West v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis

621 F.2d 240 · 1980

Citation profile

167

cited by 167 later decisions

states following

July 2018

most recently cited

68 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Dister v. Continental Group, Inc. (1988), Lojek v. Thomas (1983)

68 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1134 (§ 504 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1136 (§ 506 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1141 (§ 511 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1201 (§ 3001 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))

Relies on Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington

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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“unscrupulous employers from discharging or harassing their employees in order to keep them from obtaining vested pension rights.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Douglas R. Kelly v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation · Wallace Odneal v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan
“discharge, fine, suspend, expell [sic], discipline or discriminate”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Deeming v. American Standard, Inc. · Gerald A. Boland v. National City Bank, Cleveland, a Member of National City Corporation
“[i]t shall be unlawful for any person to discharge ... a participant ... for the purpose of interfering with any right to which such participant may become entitled under [an employee benefit] plan.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Haberern v. Kaupp Vascular Surgeons Ltd. Defined Benefit Pension Plan · Humes v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.

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.