Gilquist v. Becklin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2009
4 federal appellate · 4 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
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)
Relies on Porzig v. Nolden · McSurely v. McClellan · Kuntz v. Reese · Joseph v. New Orleans Electrical Pension & Retirement Plan · Ogden v. Michigan Bell Telephone 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any recovery by the plaintiffs would be damages for those alleged tortious acts, not a benefit under the plan____ Because plaintiffs ... have no possibility of receiving benefits, they are no longer participants in or beneficiaries of the plan, and have no standing to bring this action.”
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.