Modderno v. King’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 1059 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Leonard v. Israel Discount Bank of New York the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1999), Parker v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (1997)
27 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 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 Conley v. Gibson · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Alexander v. Choate · Traynor v. Turnage · Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio v. Betts
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall not be used as a subterfuge to evade the purposes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and decided to include the term in the Disabilities Act anyway. The Modderno court ignored explicit language in the legislative history that was clearly meant to resolve this longstanding conflict. Both the Senate and House Reports indicate that the safe-harbor section may not be used as subterfuge to evade the purposes of the Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Subchapters I through III of this chapter and title IV of this Act shall not be construed to prohibit or restrict ... a person or organization covered by this chapter from establishing, sponsoring, observing or administering the terms of a bona fide benefit plan that is not subject to State laws that regulate insurance.”
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.