Duhon v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 1302 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Insurance (2006), Vilma Lissette Vega (1999)
41 federal appellate · 5 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 702 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Halas v. Department of Energy · Pauley v. Beth-Energy Mines, 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the reviewing court is not rigidly confined to this two-step analysis in every case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Supreme Court 'surely did not suggest [in Bruch ] that 'discretionary authority' hinges on incantation of the word 'discretion' or any other 'magic word.' Rather, the Supreme Court directed lower courts to focus on the breadth of the administrators' power--their 'authority to determine eligibility for benefits or to construe the terms of the plan'....' On the other hand, discretionary authority cannot be implied ... 'an administrator has no discretion to determine eligibility or interpret the plan unless the plan language expressly confers such authority on the administrator.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given [the Plan's] undemanding language and the medical evidence in this case, the Plan administrator could competently determine disability without vocational testimony.”
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.