Guy v. Southeastern Iron Workers' Welfare Fund’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 37 · 1989
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Brown v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. (1990), De Nobel (1989)
38 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Sims v. Central Intelligence Agency · In re Disbarment of Cooper · Fondel v. Ford Motor Co. · Musto v. American General 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“full and exclusive authority to determine all questions of coverage and eligibility”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be reviewed de novo unless the plan expressly gives the administrator discretionary authority to make eligibility determinations or to construe the plan's terms”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent that benefits for services are provided hereunder, the [defendant] shall be subrogated and succeed to any rights of recovery of the covered persons because of such services against any person or organization____The covered persons shall pay over to the [defendant] all amounts recovered by suit, settlement, or otherwise from any third person or his insurer to the extent of benefits provided hereunder.”
3 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.