Smith v. Rogers Galvanizing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 1196 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2022
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 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)
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Trustees v. Greenough · Blinzler v. Marriott International, Inc. · Smith v. Rogers Galvanizing Co. · 796 F. Supp. 403 - Phillips v. Riverside, 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court has broad discretion to reopen a case to accept additional evidence and that decision will not be overturned on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion.”
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.