Benefit Trust Life Insurance v. Union National Bank of Pittsburgh’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 1174 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co Harris Trust and Savings Bank Sperry Master Retirement Trust No (1993), Fernandez v. Levin (1988)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Relies on Schott v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · 326 Pa. Super. 14 - Daset Mining Corp. v. Industrial Fuels Corp. · Penneys v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Sack v. Feinman · Palmgreen v. Palmer's Garage, Inc.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) If the breach consists of a failure to pay a definite sum in money or to render a performance on the amount due less all deductions to which the party in breach is entitled. (2) In any other case, such interest may be allowed as justice requires on the amount that would have been just compensation had it been paid when performance was due.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'inapplicable when the relationship between the parties is founded on a written agreement or express contract.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiffs were entitled to interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the time when they should have been paid for the services rendered by them. In all cases of contract interest is allowable at the legal rate from the time payment is withheld after it has become the duty of the debtor to make such payment; allowance of such interest does not depend upon discretion but is a legal right.... It is a right which arises upon breach or discontinuance of the contract provided the damages are then ascertainable by computation and even though a bona fide dispute exists as to the amount of the indebtedness.”
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.