23924j Jones’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2014
1 federal appellate · 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 · Todd v. AIG Life Insurance · Brandon v. Travelers Insurance · Brooks v. Hicks · J. Aron & Company, Inc. v. S/s Olga Jacob, Her Engines, Tackle, Etc., in Rem, Sterling Navigation Co., Ltd., in Personam
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ordinary and popular sense as would a person of average intelligence and experience.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only if the plan terms remain ambiguous after applying ordinary principles of contract interpretation are we compelled to apply the rule of contra proferentum and construe the terms strictly in favor of the insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e have held that in construing ERISA plans we follow the rule of contra proferentem "). 9 The court in that case was able to base its decision in part on the definition of "partial disability,”
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.