Moon v. American Home Assurance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 86 · 1989
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Quesinberry v. Life Insurance Co. of North America (1993), Brown v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. (1990)
56 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Dependahl v. Falstaff Brewing Corp. · Burnham v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he circuit courts which have found that particular ERISA plans granted discretion to plan administrators or fiduciaries, in cases decided after Firestone, have uniformly rested this finding upon express language of the ERISA plan before them, (emphasis in original)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a de novo review must examine only such facts as were available to the plan administrator at the time of the benefits denial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nasmuch as `the basis for the deferential standard for review in the first place was the trust nature of most ERISA plans,' the most important reason for deferential review is lacking.”
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.