Bugher v. Feightner’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 1356 · 1983
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Cox v. Keystone Carbon Co. (1988), Golden v. Kelsey-Hayes Co. (1996)
33 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1145 (§ 515 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Curtis v. Loether · Ross v. Bernhard · Castor v. United States
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Seventh Amendment does apply to actions enforcing statutory rights, and requires a jury trial upon demand, if the statute created legal rights and remedies, enforceable in an action for damages in the ordinary courts of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he form of the plaintiffs' complaint does not control the characterization of the action as either equitable or legal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a review of the statutory scheme and legislative history of ERISA demonstrates that 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1132(a)(3) was intended to supplement rather than supersede the rights existing under 29 U.S.C. Sec. 185(a) [section 301].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.