Wallace v. Johnson & Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.3d 11 · 2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2020
5 federal appellate · 8 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 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 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 · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Glenn · Stearns v. City of Gig Harbor · Rodriguez-Abreu v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Terry v. Bayer Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by no means unreasonable and so must prevail.”
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.