Garratt v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.3d 1249 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc. (1999), Felix III v. Lucent Technologies Inc (2004)
10 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 2002 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Dister v. Continental Group, 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether the evidence presents a genuine issue of material fact, we view it in the light most favorable to the party against whom summary judgment was entered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The civil enforcement mechanism ... of ERISA, specifically 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (a)(1)(B), allows a plan participant to bring a civil action not only for recovery of plan benefits and enforcement of plan rights, but also to clarify his rights to future benefits under the terms of the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 510 proscribes changes in employment status based upon benefit motivations,”
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.