Moothart v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 1499 · 1994
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 66 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Atlantic Richfield Company v. The Farm Credit Bank of Wichita Stanley a Mollerstuen (2000), Bryant v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (2005)
76 federal appellate · 66 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. § 1024 (§ 104 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Alder v. United States · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. · Bundrick v. United States
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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court's decision will not be disturbed unless the appellate court has a definite and firm conviction that the lower court made a clear error of judgment or exceeded the bounds of permissible choice in the circumstances. When we apply the 'abuse of discretion' standard, we defer to the trial court's judgment because of its first-hand ability to view the witness or evidence and assess credibility and probative value.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon written request of any participant or beneficiary, furnish a copy of the latest updated summary plan description, plan description ... contract, or other instruments under which the plan is established or operated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o hold that the district court abused its discretion, this Court must have a definite conviction that the trial court, upon weighing relevant factors, erred in its judgment.”
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.