Benson v. SRT Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 201 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 Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Where there is an express or an implied agreement to assume the transferor’s liability; 2. Where the transaction amounts to a consolidation or merger of the two corporations; 3. Where the transferee corporation is merely a continuation of the trans-feror corporation; or 4. The transaction is an attempt to defraud the creditors of the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When a party, by that party’s own declaration, act, or omission, intentionally and deliberately has led another to believe a particular thing true and to act upon such belief, that party shall not be permitted to falsify it in any litigation arising out of such declaration, act, or omission.””
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.