Patterson v. Caterpillar, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 503 · 1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Perez v. Aetna Life Insurance (1998), Herzberger v. Standard Insurance (2000)
21 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Whalen v. Roe · Donato v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Benefits will be payable only upon receipt by the Insurance Carrier or Company of such notice and such due proof, as shall be from time to time required, of such disability””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Before concluding that a decision was arbitrary and capricious, a court must be very confident that the decisionmaker overlooked something important or seriously erred in appreciating the significance of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court has held that deferential review is appropriate when the plan administrator is authorized to exercise discretion or to construe terms of the plan.”
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.