Allison v. Dugan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1053 (§ 203 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, that fact that a union member who is also a trustee turned Allison in is not persuasive evidence that the ultimate decision to suspend benefits was arbitrary or capricious ... The record does, however, demonstrate that Bushmaker's decision, which was affirmed by the Appeal Panel, was based on a good faith, discretionary, interpretation of the Plan.... 28 Id. at 1057. We agree with this reasoning. The fact that one of the trustees”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allison v. Dugan · Allison v. Dugan“for [that trustee] to have overlooked the fact that Allison may have been engaged in”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allison v. Dugan · Allison v. Dugan
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.