Reinking’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Pierre v. Connecticut General Life Insurance (1991), Kinstler v. First Reliance Standard Life Insurance (1999)
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hall v. Cole
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) degree of opposing parties’ culpability or bad faith; (2) ability of opposing parties to satisfy an award of attorneys’ fees; (3) whether an award of attorneys’ fees against the opposing parties would deter other persons acting under similar circumstances; (4) whether the parties requesting attorneys’ fees sought to benefit all participants and beneficiaries of an ERISA plan or to resolve a significant legal question regarding ERISA itself; and (5) the relative merits of the parties’ positions.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“court in its discretion may allow a reasonable attorney's fee and costs of action to either party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“lacked the capacity for effective choice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.