Spink v. Lockheed Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 1257 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Bassiri v. Xerox Corp. (2006), Leeson v. Transamerica Disability Income Plan (2012)
12 federal appellate · 6 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 LOCKHEED CORP. Et Al. v. SPINK · Parks School of Business, Inc. v. Symington · Kane v. Aetna Life Insurance · Greany v. Western Farm Bureau Life Insurance · Hlinka v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] a material misrepresentation, [2] reasonable and detrimental reliance upon the representation, [3] extraordinary circumstances, [4] that the provisions of the plan at issue were ambiguous such that reasonable persons could disagree as to their meaning or effect, and ... [5] that representations were made involving an oral interpretation of the plan.”
3 later decisions 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.