Jerrold MOOS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the SQUARE D COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.3d 39 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Shelby County Health Care Corporation v. Southern Council of Industrial Workers Health and Welfare Trust Fund,defendant (2000), Jones v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (2004)
5 federal appellate ·
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 · McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co. · Miller v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Teamsters Pension Trust Fund v. Fuqua Industries, Inc. · Brown v. Ampco-Pittsburgh 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we grant plan administrators who are vested with discretion in determining eligibility for benefits great leeway in interpreting ambiguous terms.”
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.