Reich v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2010
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1106 (§ 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to Local 98 because it paid rent to occupy the building constructed with the loan and because the union had no obligation to finance EMA's purchase of the note. Id. 11 Finally, the court rejected the argument that the union trustees violated sections 406(b)(1) and (2) of ERISA due to their participation in EMA's purchase of the note. Attempting to distinguish Cutaiar, supra, the court observed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reich v. Compton“ERISA does not contemplate transfers to 'indirect parties in interest'--the transferee is either a party in interest under the statute or it is not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reich v. Compton“it would be appropriate to deny the motion on purely procedural grounds”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reich v. Compton
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.