Rush v. United Technologies, Otis Elevator Division’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 453 · 1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Smith v. Ameritech (1997), Humphreys v. Bellaire Corp. (1992)
18 federal appellate ·
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. § 1001 (§ 2 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 Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · Dister v. Continental Group, Inc. · Gutierrez v. Lynch · Simpson v. Midland-Ross Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show that an employer had a specific intent to violate ERISA.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“go beyond all possible bounds of decency,”
1 later decision 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.