Rinard v. Eastern Co.’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 265 · 1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2016
12 federal appellate · 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 Albedyll v. Wisconsin Porcelain Company Revised Retirement Plan W J F · Schuck v. Gilmore Steel Corp. · Rinard v. Eastern Co. · International Union of Electronic, Electric, Salaried, Machine & Furniture Workers v. Murata Erie North America, 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the terms of another document to be incorporated by reference into the document executed by the parties, the reference must be clear and unequivocal * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reversion of surplus assets to an employer unless there is specific and affirmative compliance with the conditions of § 1344(d)(1)(C).”
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.