WSB Electric, Inc. v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 788 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Blue Cross of California v. Anesthesia Care Associates Medical Group Blue Cross of California (1999), Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Trust Fund v. Jwj Contracting Co Arizona State Carpenters Health and Welfare Trust Fund (1998)
16 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At most, this scheme provides examples of the types of employer contributions to benefits that are included in the wage calculation. The scheme does not force employers to provide any particular employee benefits or plans, to alter their existing plans, or to even provide ERISA plans or employee benefits at all. These provisions are enforced regardless of whether the individual employer provides benefits through ERISA plans, or whether the benefit contributions in a given locality are paid to ERISA plans.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“included in ERISA's definition of 'employee benefit plan.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Supreme Court ... has never found a statute to be preempted simply because its text included the word ERISA or explicitly mentioned a covered employee welfare benefit plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.