Testa v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 401 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1113 (§ 413 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
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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.
“As the plaintiffs concede, the details of the phantom account offset functions were set out in full in the 1998 Summary Plan Description ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Testa v. Becker“the phantom account may not be applied to employees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Testa v. Becker“rehired prior to the issuance of the 1998 SPD.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Testa v. Becker
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.