Parkman v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.3d 767 · 2006
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2020
7 federal appellate · 3 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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Fmc Corporation v. Holliday · California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement v. Dillingham Construction, N. A.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he discretionary decision of a plan administrator is not unreasonable merely because a 'different, reasonable interpretation could have been made.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relates to the administration of plan benefits, it falls within the scope of ERISA.”
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.