Byrd v. MacPapers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 157 · 1992
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Blue Cross & Blue Shield v. Sanders (1998), Uboh v. Reno (1998)
26 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1140 (§ 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Tiller v. NCNB Bank · Reed v. United Transportation Union · Shibuya v. Voss
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.
“a federal court hearing a federal cause of action should borrow the forum state's statute of limitations when Congress has not expressly provided a limitations period unless a more closely analogous federal statute of limitations exists that would better serve the federal policy interests involved”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, [and] discriminate”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. 424 F. Supp. 2d 11 - Plain v. AT & T, Corp. · 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2039, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 3461, Pens. Plan Guide P 23918x Inter-Modal Rail Employees Association Thomas Franks Charles Jones Thomas J. Martin Hoyt Jarrard Robert Stein v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company In-Terminal Services, Division of Mi-Jack Products, Inc., an Illinois Corp., Inter-Modal Rail Employees Association Thomas Franks Charles Jones Thomas J. Martin Hoyt Jarrard Robert Stein v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Santa Fe Terminal Services, Inc.“it is not inconsistent with federal law or policy to do so,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.