No. 91-3128’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Houghton v. SIPCO, Inc. (1994), Jensen v. SIPCO, Inc. (1994)
9 federal appellate · 6 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 Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · In re Disbarment of Cooper · Moore v. Texas · Musto v. American General Corp. · Amato v. Western Union International, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incorporated, in some fashion, into the formal written ERISA plan.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ERISA requirement that terms of a welfare benefit plan be committed to writing was intended to insure that employees could rely on the terms of the formal written plan provided to them without fear that unwritten contrary terms would later surface.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolutely nothing in the plan to contradict or cloud [its] plain and obvious meaning”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stearns v. NCR Corp.
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.