Packer Engineering, Inc. v. Kratville’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 174 · 1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2014
1 federal appellate ·
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. § 1110 (§ 410 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. · Visser v. Packer Engineering Associates, Inc. · Hill v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company · Bittner v. Sadoff & Rudoy Industries · Leigh v. Engle
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make it easier for pension plans to engage the services of persons unwilling or unable to bear the costs of legal contests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Firstier Bank, N.A., Omaha, as Trustee of the Profit Sharing Plan and Employees Trust of Land Paving Company v. James R. Zeller Patricia A. Olsen, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Duane H. Olsen James E. Lonergan Bryan Vercoe, Defendants-Third Party Land Paving Company Anthony E. Dombrowski Frank Bosanek Eugene H. Hess Richard J. O'KOnsKy Profit Sharing Plan and Employees Trust of Land Paving Company v. George N. Silence Management Consultant Services, Inc., Third Party and James E. Bachman · Firstier Bank, N.A. v. Zeller“Kratville is entitled to recompense for the legal fees and other costs incurred in defending this appeal, but none of that money shall come from the plan (as opposed to the other two appellants).”
1 later decision 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.