Confer v. Custom Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 41 · 1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Gluck v. Unisys Corp. (1992), In re Unisys Corp. Retiree Medical Benefit "ERISA" Litigation (1995)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Bates v. State Bar · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co. · Fields v. Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. · Hozier v. Midwest Fasteners, Inc. · Country Floors Inc v. A Partnership Composed of Gepner and Ford
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the change [of an employee benefit plan] by means of a formal amendment could only operate prospectively.”
3 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.