Tanzillo v. Local Union International Brotherhool of Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers of America Tanzillo’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2005
2 district · 2 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
Relies on Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Castor v. United States · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Infelice v. United States · Rosen v. Hotel And Restaurant Employees & Bartenders Union Of Phila.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) This section shall not apply with respect to any cause of action which arose, or any act or omission which occurred, before January 1, 1975.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contemporaneous construction of the plan's provisions ... to which ERISA's fiduciary standards apply.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) In computing the period of service under the plan for purposes of determining the nonforfeitable percentage under subsection (a)(2) of this section, all of an employee’s years of service with the employer or employers maintaining the plan shall be taken into account, except that the following may be disregarded: (F) years of service before this part first applies to the plan if such service would have been disregarded under the rules of the plan with respect to breaks in service, as in effect on the applicable date;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.