Moeller v. Bertrang’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2015
8 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1053 (§ 203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1054 (§ 204 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 Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Jizmejian v. United States · 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if from the surrounding circumstances a reasonable person can ascertain the intended benefits, a class of beneficiaries, the source of financing, and procedures for receiving benefits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. William J. Elmore Wayne Comer, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of Similarly Situated v. Cone Mills Corporation Cone Mills Acquisition Corporation Dewey L. Trogdon Lacy G. Baynes, and Paul W. Stephanz Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A., (Three Cases). William J. Elmore Wayne Comer, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of Similarly Situated v. Cone Mills Corporation Cone Mills Acquisition Corporation Dewey L. Trogdon Lacy G. Baynes, and Paul W. Stephanz Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A. · William J. Elmore Wayne Comer, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of Similarly Situated v. Cone Mills Corporation Cone Mills Acquisition Corporation Dewey L. Trogdon Lacy G. Baynes, and Paul W. Stephanz Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A., Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae (Three Cases). William J. Elmore Wayne Comer, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of Similarly Situated v. Cone Mills Corporation Cone Mills Acquisition Corporation Dewey L. Trogdon Lacy G. Baynes, and Paul W. Stephanz Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A., Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae“(i) provides retirement income to employees, or (ii) results in a deferral of income by employees for periods extending to the termination of covered employment or beyond, regardless of the method of calculating the contributions made to the plan, the method of calculating the benefits under the plan or the method of distributing benefits from the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.