Chait v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1012 (§ 2 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 26 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 1012 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 403 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Sutton v. Weirton Steel Division of National Steel Corp. · Van Orman v. American Insurance · Pollock v. Castrovinci
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'termination' and 'partial termination,' as used in this Plan, shall have the meaning imparted thereto under ERISA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chait v. Bernstein
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.