Addis v. Limited Long-Term Disability Program’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord · Abnathya v. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. · Pinto v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance · Caldwell III v. Life Insurance Company of North America
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘unable to perform all duties' of her regular occupation”, and disability thereafter defined as unable to perform the duties of”
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.