Felton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Stone v. Travelers Corp. (1995), Nos. 93-55478, 93-55695 (1995)
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 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
Relies on Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Wilson v. Garcia · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e find persuasive the reasoning of those courts which have found that a claim brought under Sec. 510 is essentially an assertion that the employee was discriminated against based on either his application for insurance benefits or his pension eligibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The conclusion that an ERISA cause of action is most analogous to a statutory claim because ERISA is a statute reflects circular reasoning. Such reasoning sidesteps the Supreme Court's requirement that we look to state law causes of action to determine the appropriate limitation period.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge ... a participant... for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under the plan . . .".”
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.