680 F. Supp. 2d 299 - Monast v. Johnson & Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 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 · Terry v. Bayer Corp. · Doyle v. Paul Revere Life Insurance · Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Bowes
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... if the ERISA plan expressly provides that its members are obligated to [act], we do not think it can be considered 'unfair' to require plan members to abide by the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyman v. Unum Grp.“the fact that the state legislature has expressly limited the rule to liability insurers weighs heavily against extending the rule to disability insurers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyman v. Unum Grp.
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.