Blackburn v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 502
Relies on Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · Fmc Corporation v. Holliday · United States v. Crawley · Cutting v. Jerome Foods, 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no reason to fiddle with an unambiguous plan provision which the parties freely entered into.”
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.