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Taft v. Equitable Life Assurance Society’s Empirical Analysis

9 F.3d 1469 · 1993

Citation profile

215

cited by 215 later decisions

March 2018

most recently cited

85 federal appellate · 29 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Kearney v. Standard Insurance (1999), Miller v. United Welfare Fund (1995)

85 federal appellate · 29 district ·

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 · Reiter v. Cooper · Rufo v. Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail · Younger v. Younger · Lampl v. Four D Manufacturing Co.

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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[p]ermitting a district court to examine evidence outside the administrative record would open the door to the anomalous conclusion that a plan administrator abused its discretion by failing to consider evidence not before it.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Jelinek v. Hewlett-Packard Co. · Jones v. Aetna U.S. Healthcare
“make[s] a decision without any explanation, or in a way that conflicts with the plain language of the plan, or that is based on clearly erroneous findings of fact.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Paul Parks v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oregon, an Oregon Corporation · Bowers v. Ibm Group Life Insurance and Survivors Income Benefit Plan
“[A]n administrator also abuses its discretion if it relies on clearly erroneous findings of fact in making benefit determinations.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Lee A. Podolan v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Morrison Knudsen Corporation, Long-Term Disability Plan · Paul Parks v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oregon, an Oregon Corporation

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.