Barhan v. Ry-Ron Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 198 · 1997
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Vilma Lissette Vega (1999), Goodwin v. Johnson (1997)
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. · Wildbur v. Arco Chemical Co. · Todd v. AIG Life Insurance
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Plan bore the initial burden of informing the court of the basis for its motion [for summary judgment] and identifying those portions of the pleadings, depositions, affidavits or other factual support that demonstrate that it did not abuse its discretion in rejecting the beneficiary's claim.”
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.