Kurz’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2014
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Basic Inc. v. Levinson · Turner v. Schering-Plough Corp. · Berlin v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
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.
“A plan administrator may not make affirmative material misrepresentations to plan participants about changes to an employee pension benefits plan. Put simply, when a plan administrator speaks, it must speak truthfully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ultimate inquiry is whether there is a 'substantial likelihood' that the affirmative misrepresentation 'would mislead a reasonable employee in making an adequately informed decision about if and when to retire.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ballone“) ("PECo is entitled to argue ... that the statements it allegedly made were not material because at the time those statements were made, the amendment to the plan was not under serious consideration”
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.