No. 03-2457’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord · Quesinberry v. Life Insurance Co. of North America · Woo v. Deluxe Corp. · Aloe Energy Corp. v. Barnhart · 23921v Buttram v. Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not hold that a plan administrator has the same independent duty to develop the record that a Social Security administrative law judge does.”
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.