Stiltner v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 1473 · 1996
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably A Society Without a Name v. Commonwealth of Virginia (2011), 23923t Faircloth
29 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1140 (§ 510 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. § 1161 (§ 601 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Soberon 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). Because the anti-retaliation provision at issue here uses the same”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“numerous courts have limited 'discriminate against,' as used in § 510, to actions affecting the employer-employee relationship.... With this interpretation of the phrase 'discriminate against' so firmly entrenched, we are not inclined to ascribe a second meaning to the phrase in cases involving interference with the exercise of ERISA rights.”
2 later decisions 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.