Wheeler v. Dynamic Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.3d 634 · 1995
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Barbara Booth v. Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated Associates Health and Welfare Plan Barbara a Booth (2000), Chiles v. Ceridian Corp. (1996)
28 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 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 · Quesinberry v. Life Insurance Co. of North America · Doe v. Group Hospitalization & Medical Services · Saltarelli v. Bob Baker Group Medical Trust · Wulf v. Quantum Chemical 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The degree of the opposing party’s culpability or bad faith; 2. The ability of the opposing party to satisfy an award of attorney fees; 3. Whether an award of attorney fees against the opposing party would deter other persons acting under similar circumstances; 4. Whether the party requesting attorney fees sought to benefit all participants and beneficiaries of an ERISA plan or to resolve a significant legal question regarding ERISA itself; and 5. The relative merits of the parties’ positions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“under ordinary principles of contract law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a term is ambiguous, we must construe it against the drafter, and in accordance with the reasonable expectations of the insured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.