Brandon v. Interfirst Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 266 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Browning Manufacturing v. Mims (In Re Coastal Plains, Inc.) (1999), Grant v. Lone Star Co. (1994)
24 federal appellate · 11 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. § 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)
Relies on Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · De Leon v. United States · Scarano v. Central R. Co. of New Jersey · Edwards v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a common law doctrine by which a party who has assumed one position in his pleadings may be estopped from assuming an inconsistent position”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bankr. L. Rep. P 74,301, 37 cont.cas.fed. (Cch) P 76,201 United States of America for the Use of American Bank, Cross-Appellees v. C.I.T. Construction Incorporated of Texas, Cross-Appellant, and Fireman's Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, Carlos · Lori Wash. ex rel. J.W. v. Katy Indep. Sch. Dist.“`preventing parties from playing fast and loose with the courts to suit the exigencies of self interest.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to protect the integrity of the judicial process”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bankr. L. Rep. P 74,301, 37 cont.cas.fed. (Cch) P 76,201 United States of America for the Use of American Bank, Cross-Appellees v. C.I.T. Construction Incorporated of Texas, Cross-Appellant, and Fireman's Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, Carlos · Lori Wash. ex rel. J.W. v. Katy Indep. Sch. Dist.
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.