Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district ·

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “there would otherwise be an accumulated funding deficiency for all or part of the plan year in question, the funding ‘deficiency could not be avoided through the implementation of any other reasonably available alternative (including amortization of experience losses or a waiver of the funding requirement), and the funding deficiency was not primarily attributable to the failure by employers to discharge contractual obligations to make contributions under the plan....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johannssen v. District No. 1—Pacific Coast District, MEBA Pension Plan

2. “[n]o amendment described in this paragraph which reduces the accrued benefits of any participant shall take effect unless the plan administrator files a notice with the Secretary notifying him of such amendment and the Secretary has approved such amendment, or, within 90 days after the date on which such notice was filed, failed to disapprove such amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robert Scardelletti

3. “[t]he accrued benefit of a participant under a plan may not be decreased by an amendment of the plan, other than an amendment described in section 1082(c)(8) or 1441 of this title”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robert Scardelletti