Grabois v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.3d 97 · 1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2012
3 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1055 (§ 205 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Wright v. Wright · Insurance Co. of North America v. United States Department of Labor
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What the district court does not appear to have considered, however, is that it is also well established New York law that when a court is confronted with the claim that a formal second marriage is invalid because of the existence of a valid first marriage, a strong presumption of validity attaches to the second marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poulos v. Poulos“If the pension funds are covered by ERISA's surviving spouse annuity provision, 29 U.S.C. § 1055 . . . [,] then the direct commands of the statute govern the distribution of these benefits.”
1 later decision 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.