Smathers v. Multi-Tool, Inc./Multi-Plastics, Inc. Employee Health & Welfare Plan’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.3d 191 · 2002
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Williams v. BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (2004), Post v. Hartford Insurance (2007)
20 federal appellate · 9 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Farrell v. Planters Lifesavers Co. · Miles v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund Employee Pension Benefit Plan · Wildbur v. Arco Chemical Co.
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the loss of morale and higher wage demands that could result from denials of benefits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since Smathers was no longer an employee when Multi-Tool made its decision to deny his claims, the counterbalancing of its monetary self-interest by possible concerns about the impact of its decision on morale and wage demands would thereby be lessened.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kosiba v. Merck & Company · Kosiba“a more penetrating review of [the] administrator's decisionmaking process than would normally be conducted under the arbitrary and capricious standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kosiba v. Merck & Company · Kosiba
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.