Popowski v. Parrott’s Empirical Analysis
461 F.3d 1367 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson · Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. · Barnes v. Alexander · John Doe, I v. Moore
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language essentially identical to the Supreme Court’s characterization of the plan language in Sereboff” is a claim for”
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.