Johnson v. District 2 Marine Engineers Beneficial Ass'n-Associated Maritime Officers, Medical Plan’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 514 · 1988
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Kunin v. Benefit Trust Life Insurance (1990), Heasley v. Belden & Blake Corp. (1993)
35 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 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. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Smith v. Harmsen
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, made in bad faith, not supported by substantial evidence or erroneous as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the context of modern medicine, the term 'experimental' seems clearly ambiguous on its face.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if it [was] a reasonable interpretation of the plan's terms and was made in good faith.”
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.