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942 F.2d 1137 · 1991

Citation profile

cited by 27 later decisions

cited 1 times by the Supreme Court

September 2013

most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably LOCKHEED CORP. Et Al. v. SPINK (1996), Johnson v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1994)

13 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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. § 1054 (§ 204 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 403 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)

Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Kelly v. United States · South Central Enterprises, Inc. v. Farrington

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“and does not purport to expand the scope of ERISA to include design decisions defining the parameters of a program.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 16 Employee Benefits Cas. 2387, Pens. Plan Guide P 23891k Michael Hickey, Fred Jung, Michael Crowley v. A.E. Staley Manufacturing, Formerly Known as Staley Continental Incorporated, Formerly Known as Cfs Continental · 23891k Hickey v. Ae Staley Manufacturing Cfs
“discretionary authority to determine eligibility for benefits or to construe the terms of the plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 16 Employee Benefits Cas. 2387, Pens. Plan Guide P 23891k Michael Hickey, Fred Jung, Michael Crowley v. A.E. Staley Manufacturing, Formerly Known as Staley Continental Incorporated, Formerly Known as Cfs Continental · 23891k Hickey v. Ae Staley Manufacturing Cfs
“does not bring design decisions within ERISA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 16 Employee Benefits Cas. 2387, Pens. Plan Guide P 23891k Michael Hickey, Fred Jung, Michael Crowley v. A.E. Staley Manufacturing, Formerly Known as Staley Continental Incorporated, Formerly Known as Cfs Continental · 23891k Hickey v. Ae Staley Manufacturing Cfs

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.