Tiemeyer v. Community Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[w]hen interpreting the language of an ERISA plan the courts are guided by the principles of trust law (citations omitted). 'As they do with contractual provisions, courts construe terms in trust agreements without deferring to either party’s interpretation’ (citations omitted). When a plan gives a trustee the ‘power to construe disputed or doubtful terms’ the trustee’s interpretation, if reasonable, will not be disturbed (citations omitted).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whisman v. Robbins“Inasmuch as all three children have been inpatients at Children's since birth and are not primarily dependent upon her for support, it is impossible for them to have established residence with Ms. Tiemeyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a valid distinction to be made in that at one time [these classes of dependent children] actually lived at the subscribers' home prior to leaving.”
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.