Fuchs v. Lifetime Doors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 1275 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2017
7 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1140 (§ 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Dewees v. United States · Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlawful for any person to discharge, fire, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a participant or beneficiary for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of an employee benefit plan, this sub-chapter ..., or for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under the plan, this subchapter....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e direct the district court to award post-judgment interest on the entire amount of the judgment, including damages, prejudgment interest, and attorney's fees.”
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.