Whisman v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 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. § 1104 (§ 404 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. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1135 (§ 505 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Bibby v. United States · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.... 14 A Pensioner shall permanently lose his rights to any benefit payments which are suspended because of his work in Prohibited Reemployment. 4 15 Although the district court held that the Trustees, in denying Whisman's appeal, did not act unreasonably under the Plan's provisions, it nonetheless found error because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ork in any capacity ... for an employer engaged in the types of business activities in which a Contributing Employer is engaged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the disjunctive rather than in the conjunctive. Id. at 947. The Whisman court quoted the pension plan as follows: 11 Section 4.12 REEMPLOYMENT AND SUSPENSION OF BENEFITS RULES 63 (a) A Pensioner shall have his benefit payments suspended for any calendar month in which he works in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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