Yeager v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 376 · 1996
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Smith v. Ameritech (1997), Pinto v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance (2000)
59 federal appellate · 3 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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · A.H. Robins Co. v. Maressa · Miller v. Metropolitan 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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rational in light of the plan's provisions.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] determination that evidence is satisfactory is a subjective judgment that requires a plan administrator to exercise its discretion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the highly deferential arbitrary and capricious standard of review.”
6 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.