John E. Fontenot v. Nl Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Bogue v. Ampex Corp. (1992), Schonholz v. Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1996)
29 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Grogan v. Garner · Hamilton ex rel. Smith v. Texas · Pane v. Rca Corporation · Wells v. General Motors 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The theoretical possibility of a one-time obligation in the future simply creates no need for an ongoing administrative program for processing claims and paying benefits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) it simply requires that the employer make a one-time, lump-sum payment triggered by a single event that might never occur, (2) it does not require an administrative scheme to meet this obligation, and (3) the employer does not assume responsibility for making regular benefit payments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the circumstances of each employee's termination ... in light of certain criteria”
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.