McDonald v. Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
291 F.3d 718 · 2002
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Williams v. Board of Regents (2007), Umland v. Planco Financial Services, Inc. (2008)
15 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Alexander v. Sandoval · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Congress creates certain remedial procedures, we are, 'in the absence of strong indicia of contrary congressional intent, ... compelled to conclude that Congress provided precisely the remedies it considered appropriate.’ ’’) (alteration in original) (quoting Karahalios, 489 U.S. at 533 , 109 S.Ct. at 1286-87 (quoting Middlesex County Sewerage Auth. v. Nat'l Sea Clammers Ass’n, 453 U.S. 1 , 15, 101 S.Ct. 2615 , 2623, 69 L.Ed.2d 435 (1981))). 13 . See also 132 Cong. Rec. SI 1,784 (daily ed. Aug. 15, 1986) (statement of Sens. Dole and Cranston); S.Rep. No. 400, at 2329 (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is ... `an elemental canon' of statutory construction that where a statute expressly provides a remedy, courts must be especially reluctant to provide additional remedies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Legislative history can be taken into account where relevant, but the central focus of judicial inquiry must be the `text and structure' of the statute itself.”
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.