Russell v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 482 · 1983
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell (1985), LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, Inc. (2008)
46 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 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. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1135 (§ 505 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Grubbs v. General Electric Credit 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any law of any state which regulates insurance, banking, or securities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoeflicker v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Health & Welfare Fund · 35 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1650, 36 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1595, 35 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 34,692, 5 Employee Benefits Ca 2089 Richard M. Lane, Paul Miller, Joseph Aparicio, San Heil, Bill E. Perry, J.W. Wood, Syd Carnine, Peter E. Johnson, John L. Meek, and Roy Silver, as Trustees of the Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee Fund for Southern California v. Osias Goren, John A. Martin, Jr., Dale Minami, C.L. Dellums, Elsa Saxod, Virginia Sanchez, and Susan Weiner, as Members of the Fair Employment and Housing Commission of the State of California“shall supersede any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appropriate remedies, sanctions, and ready access to the Federal courts”
4 later decisions 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.