Blakeman v. Mead Containers’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 1146 · 1985
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Massachusetts v. Morash (1989), Taft Broadcasting Company v. United States (1991)
43 federal appellate · 5 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 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1024 (§ 104 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 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)
Relies on Smith v. Hudson · Gordon v. United States · Blau v. Del Monte Corporation · Scott v. Gulf Oil Corp. · Jung v. Fmc Corporation
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... movant has the burden of showing conclusively that there exist no geniune issue as to a material fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A civil action may be brought ... by a participant or beneficiary ... to recover benefits due to him under the terms of his plan, to enforce his rights under the terms of his plan, or to clarify his rights to future benefits under terms of the plan____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Payroll practices. For purposes of Title I of the Act and this chapter, the terms 'employee welfare benefit plan' and 'welfare plan' shall not include— * * * * * "(3) Payment of compensation, out of the employer's general assets, on account of periods of time during which the employee, although physically and mentally able to perform his or her duties and not absent for medical reasons (such as pregnancy, a physical examination or psychiatric treatment) performs no duties; for example— "(i) Payment of compensation while an employee is on vacation or absent on a holiday, including payment of premiums to induce employees to take vacations at a time favorable to the employer for business reasons.”
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.