399 F. Supp. 2d 628 - Steele v. Boeing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord · Williams v. Borough of West Chester
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You will be deemed to be disabled if you are not able, solely because of a disease or injury, to perform the material duties of your own occupation. You will not be deemed to be performing the material duties of your own occupation if: you are performing some of the material duties of your own occupation; and solely due to disease or injury, your income is 80% or less of your predisability earnings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steele v. Boeing Co.
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.