Feinberg v. RM Acquisition, LLC’s Empirical Analysis
629 F.3d 671 · 2011
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 201 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. § 1140 (§ 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Golden State Bottling Company Inc v. National Labor Relations Board · General Electric Capital Corporation v. Lease Resolution Corporation · Jim L. Woolsey v. Marion Laboratories, Inc. Marion Laboratories, Inc., Profit Sharing Plan · Leannais v. Cincinnati, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. G-K-G, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper defendant in a suit for benefits under an ERISA plan is ... normally the plan itself [citations omitted], rather than the plan administrator, because the plan is the obligor. To sue the administrator for plan benefits is like suing a corporation’s CEO to collect a corporate debt.... But when the lines between the plan, the plan administrator, and the plan sponsor are indistinct or contested, the plaintiffs designation of the “wrong” defendant can be forgiven provided the “right” defendant is not misled, [citing Mote, Mein, and Musmeci v. Schwegmann Giant Super Markets, Inc., 332 F.3d 339, 349-50 (5th Cir.2003).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a claim arising from a violation of federal rights is involved, the courts allow the plaintiff to go against the purchaser of the violator’s business even if it is a true sale ..., provided that two conditions are satisfied. The first is that the successor had notice of the claim before the acquisition.... The second condition is that there be substantial continuity in the operation of the business before and after the sale, and is satisfied if no major changes are made in that operation.”
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.