Richardson v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 660 · 1981
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Halpin v. Ww Grainger Incorporated (1992), Wolfe v. Jc Penney Company Inc (1983)
46 federal appellate · 8 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wardle v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund · Radio City Music Hall Corp. v. United States · Mrs. Geneva B. Phillips v. William J. Kennedy
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'were intended to help claimants process their claims efficiently and fairly,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“set[ ] forth the specific reasons for such denial, written in a manner calculated to be understood by the participant”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to require the Board of Trustees to issue a written opinion that includes specific reasons for the decision. Baldfaced conclusions do not satisfy this requirement.”
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.