participant
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 489 U.S. 101 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · 1989Most cited · 14,418 citing opinions
any employee or former employee of an employer, or any member or former member of an employee organization, who is or may become eligible to receive a benefit of any type from an employee benefit plan which covers employees of such employer or members of such organization, or whose beneficiaries may be eligible to receive any such benefit.
How often courts cite the case defining “participant”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “participant” — 14,306 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.