Fleming v. Ayers & Associates’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 993 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2014
11 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · In re Martin-Trigona · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“29 U.S.C. § 1002 (7) (emphasis added). Here, it is not disputed that Fleming would have become eligible for Ayers' health insurance benefit upon moving to a full-time nursing job. Thus, we cannot say that the District Court erred in finding Fleming to be a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any employee ... of an employer ... who is or may become eligible to receive a benefit of any type from an employee benefit plan....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“her pregnancy. 2 2] It seems to us obvious that the reference in the Act to”
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.