Paddack v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 844 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Allah v. Superior Court of California (1989), Casey v. Albertson's Inc. (2004)
33 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Hummell v. S. E. Rykoff & Co. · Paddack v. Dave Christensen, Inc. · Operating Engineers Pension Trust v. Gilliam · Carpenters Southern California Administrative Corp. v. Russell · Marquardt v. North American Car 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the degree of the opposing parties’ culpability or bad faith; (2) the ability of the opposing parties to satisfy an award of fees; (3) whether an award of fees against the opposing parties would deter others from acting under similar circumstances; (4) whether the parties requesting fees sought to benefit all participants and beneficiaries of an ERISA plan or to resolve a significant legal question regarding ERISA; and (5) the relative merits of the parties’ positions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Abuse of discretion is found only when there is a definite conviction that the court made a clear error of judgment in its conclusion upon weighing relevant factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e will strictly enforce the requirement that there be a separate judgment or order ... before we will hold an appeal to be untimely.”
2 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.