Bartholet v. REISHAUER A.G.’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 1073 · 1992
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 503 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000), In re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation (1997)
182 federal appellate · 8 district · 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating 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 503 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Instead of asking whether the complaint points to the appropriate statute, a court should ask whether relief is possible under any set of facts that could be established consistent with the allegations.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yakubek v. Rex · Shannon v. Shannon“[ejxcept as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the provisions of this subchap-ter and subchapter III of this chapter shall supersede any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan described in Section 1003(a) of this title and not exempt under section 1003(b) of this title.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] complaint reciting that the claim depends on the common law of contracts is really based on [ERISA] if the contract in question is a pension plan.... [A] complaint about pensions rests on federal law no matter what label its author attaches.”
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.