Ingram v. Martin Marietta Long Term Disability Income Plan for Salaried Employees of Transferred GE Operations’s Empirical Analysis
244 F.3d 1109 · 2001
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Insurance (2006), Padfield v. AIG Life Insurance (2002)
16 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r · Quesinberry v. Life Insurance Co. of North America · Kearney v. Standard Insurance
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an insurance company seeking to sell and administer an ERISA plan wants to have discretion in making claims decisions, it should say so. It is not difficult to write, “The plan administrator has discretionary authority to grant or deny benefits under this plan.” ... [i]t is easy enough to confer discretion unambiguously if plan sponsors, administrators, or fiduciaries want benefits decisions to be reviewed for abuse of discretion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ccordingly, ... the review and payment or denial of claims and the provision of full and fair review of claim denial pursuant to [ERISA] shall be vested in the carrier.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he carrier solely is responsible for providing the benefits under this Plan”
2 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.