Authier v. Ginsberg’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 796 · 1985
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Sommers Drug Stores Co. Employee Profit Sharing Trust v. Corrigan Enterprises, Inc. (1986), Phillips v. Amoco Oil Co. (1986)
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1105 (§ 405 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1131 (§ 501 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 Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Hines v. Davidowitz · Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A State, any political subdivisions thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of either, which purports to regulate, directly or indirectly, the terms and conditions of employment benefit plans covered by this subchapter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to establish a uniform federal law regulating pension plans,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress used 'relate to' in its broadest sense”
3 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.