Kosiba’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Lamanna v. Special Agents Mutual Benefits Ass'n (2008), Addis v. Limited Long-Term Disability Program (2006)
7 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 Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Pinto v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance · Sandoval v. Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Co L · Mitchell v. Eastman Kodak Co. · Mers v. Marriott International Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of potential biases and conflicts of interest that is not found in the administrator's record”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be based on the record available to the plan administrator in making its own decision.”
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.