Walker v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2011
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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1022 (§ 102 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Hansen v. Continental Insurance · Adam G. Nunez v. The Superior Oil Company · Cagle v. Bruner
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.
“In 1991, [the member] sustained injuries in an automobile accident and received medical treatment for the same. Her ERISA-defined employee welfare benefit paid her medical expenses contingent upon her agreement to reimburse the Plan for “any amounts previously paid to [her] by the Plan.” [The member] subsequently received a settlement closely approximating the received amount of medical expenses incurred by the Plan on her behalf....”
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.