Van Orman v. American Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 301 · 1982
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 19 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Amato v. Western Union International, Inc. (1985), Luby v. Teamsters Health, Welfare, & Pension Trust Funds (1991)
54 federal appellate · 19 district · 9 state decisions
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 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962)
Relies on Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation · Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal courts [should] not lightly create additional [ERISA] rights under the rubric of federal common law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hooven v. Exxon Mobil Corp. · Henry F. Plucinski v. I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co., Perth Amboy Management Pension Fund, William T. Harth, Alfred C. Bruggeman, John Doe and Richard Roe, Third Party v. District No. 15, International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, Third Party Appeal of I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co.“such a right would override a contractual provision”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'necessary to fill in interstitially or otherwise effectuate the statutory pattern enacted in the large by Congress.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henry F. Plucinski v. I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co., Perth Amboy Management Pension Fund, William T. Harth, Alfred C. Bruggeman, John Doe and Richard Roe, Third Party v. District No. 15, International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, Third Party Appeal of I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co. · Plucinski v. Iam National Pension Fund T C
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.