Shannon v. Jack Eckerd Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 208 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Levinson v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance (2001), Paramore v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1997)
10 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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Jett v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. · Jones v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · 764 F. Supp. 728 - Bucci v. Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Connecticut, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Should [the beneficiary] wish to present additional information that might affect the determination of eligibility for benefits, the proper course would be to remand to [the plan administrator] for a new determination.”) (quoting Jett, 890 F.2d at 1140 ) (bracketed alterations in original); cf. Levinson v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 245 F.3d 1321, 1328 (11th Cir.2001) (upholding denial of administrator's request to remand where the administrator”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot say that the district court erred in remanding for the Plan administrator to make a reasonably relevant inquiry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] decision to deny benefits is arbitrary and capricious if no reasonable basis exists for the decision.”
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.