Lennon v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Finnegan v. Leu · Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College · Foley v. Polaroid Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If this court were to adopt plaintiffs reasoning, however, every person denied benefits by a union fund or plan might assert a cause of action under the LMRDA. Moreover, allowing plaintiffs claim would eviscerate the requirement that to state a claim under Title I of the LMRDA a plaintiff must allege that the challenged action directly infringed the plaintiffs union membership rights. Accordingly, plaintiffs claims against the Staff Pensions Plan must be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be transformed into a genie offering lifetime job security because Title I rights would be backed by a right to bring an action for any loss of union employment.” Franza v. Teamsters Local 671, 869 F.2d 41, 47 (2d Cir.1989). Under Franza ,”
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.