Stearns v. NCR Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1053 (§ 203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Sprague 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he documentary evidence offered by the parties in this case makes clear that the ... Program is not, as plaintiffs contend, a free-standing ERISA plan. Rather, NCR amended the basic health care plan that it provided for its employees at the time of the ... Program's inception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stearns v. NCR Corp.“refer to our `Group Benefits Plan' booklet which was mailed to your home earlier this year for the details of the NCR Health Care Plans.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stearns v. NCR Corp.“according to basic principles of contract interpretation.”
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.