Flick v. Borg-Warner Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 285 · 1989
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Kikumura (1990), Hozier v. Midwest Fasteners, Inc. (1990)
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Singleton v. Wulff · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“harm, where present, would justify shifting onto the defendant the burden of proving that the plaintiffs are not entitled to benefits under the terms of the plan--a kind of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] divestiture, sale or transfer of all or a portion of Transportation Services wherein the employee is not offered employment with the purchaser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly expressed intentions govern (even if pro-employer), but silence or ambiguity is construed in favor of the employee participants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.