Miller v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2016
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 451 · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1023 (§ 103 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 201 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Texas v. New Mexico
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can the beneficiary establish, through the plan documents, a legal right any greater than that of an unsecured creditor to a specific set of funds from which the employer is, under the terms of the plan, obligated to pay the deferred compensation?”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny determination of the `unfunded' status of an `excess benefit' or `top hat' plan of deferred compensation requires an examination of the facts and circumstances, including the status of the plan under non-ERISA law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). 4 As noted above, a plan under which the beneficiaries do not incur tax liability during the year that the contributions to the plan are made is”
3 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.