Whisman v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2011
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
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. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Hiatt v. Brown · Akron-Canton Regional Airport Authority v. Swinehart · Combs v. Nick Garin Trucking
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.
“notice reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by appointment [to mean] an actual appointment by the defendant, and, if such has been made, service upon the agent gives the court jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“authorized `by appointment' or `by law' to receive service of process.”
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.