Atwood v. Newmont Gold Co.’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 1317 · 1995
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 31 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Insurance (2006), Kearney v. Standard Insurance (1999)
91 federal appellate · 31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 1022 (§ 102 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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Halas v. Department of Energy · Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union · Gracey v. Reigle
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material, probative evidence, beyond the mere fact of the apparent conflict, tending to show that the fiduciary's self-interest caused a breach of the administrator's fiduciary obligations to the beneficiary.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factor in determining whether there is an abuse of discretion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make[s] a decision without any explanation, or in a way that conflicts with the plain language of the plan, or that is based on clearly erroneous findings of fact.”
5 later decisions 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.