Simmons v. Willcox’s Empirical Analysis
911 F.2d 1077 · 1990
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Fallick v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1998), Powell v. A.T. & T. Communications, Inc. (1991)
33 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1140 (§ 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Easter House v. United States · Dewees v. United States · Mansell v. Mansell
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of an employee benefit plan ... or for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under the plan....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with the specific intent of interfering with ... ERISA benefits.”
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.