DeWitt v. State Farm Insurance Companies Retirement Plan for United States Employees’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 798 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2015
5 federal appellate · 3 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
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 · De Nobel · Hugh Edwards v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · Boyd v. Trustees of the United Mine Workers Health & Retirement Funds · Reid v. Life Insurance Company of North America Inc
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disability policy provides benefits if the claimant is unable to perform his regular job; a”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plan administrator shall have the power ... to make all determinations that the plan requires for its administration, and to construe and interpret the plan whenever necessary to carry out its intent and purpose and to facilitate its administration. All such rules, regulations, determinations, constructions and interpretations made by the plan administrator shall be binding....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'actual severance' is not ambiguous, and ... it should be construed literally, not as a 'functional severance.'”
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.