Sasso v. Cervoni’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 49 · 1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 263 F. Supp. 2d 745 - In Re WorldCom, Inc. Erisa Litigation (2003), Gary Antol v. Dominic Esposto (1996)
4 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1145 (§ 515 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Diduck v. Kaszycki & Sons Contractors, Inc. · Donovan v. Agnew · Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc. · Solomon v. Klein · Alman v. Danin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have recognized that special circumstances, beyond an individual's officer status or corporate duties, might warrant the imposition of personal liability for a corporation's ERISA obligations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“employer who is obligated to make contributions to a multiemployer plan”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assets of the corporation with assets of their own and of related corporations, and had used corporate assets for their personal benefit instead of for meeting ERISA obligations, see id. at 1221 . Lowen relied both on the principle that a person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sasso v. Cervoni
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.