176 F. Supp. 2d 911 - Wolfe v. 3M Short-Term Disability Plan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 2021
1 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Crown, Cork & Seal Co. v. Parker · Miles v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund Employee Pension Benefit Plan
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a plaintiff files her complaint to avoid the running of the limitations period but prior to fully exhausting her internal remedies, she risks dismissal of her claim for failure to exhaust her administrative remedies. Conversely, a plaintiff who exhausts her internal remedies as required under the plan itself, ERISA and applicable caselaw, there is a risk that, absent tolling, the limitations period will expire before she files suit in federal court.”
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.