Cohen v. Martin's’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 296 · 1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2011
3 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1053 (§ 203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1061 (§ 211 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. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation · Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. · Riley v. MEBA Pension Trust · Reiherzer v. Shannon
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.
“[h]ad Congress intended to extend the protections of the vesting requirements to retirees such as Cohen , it would have spoken of a “participant’s right” to receive benefits. We will not lightly assume that Congress’s choice of words', “an employee's right,” was inadvertent. Indeed, an examination of ERISA’s legislative history indicates that the language of § 1053(a) reflects a conscious decision to restrict its coverage to persons actually employed on January 1, 1976. Id. at 298. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall apply in the case of plan years beginning after December 31, 1975.”
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.