Shirley v. Maxicare Texas, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 565 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably John G. & Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation v. Mauro (1994), Christopher v. Stanley-Bostitch, Inc. (2001)
11 federal appellate · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Davis v. Wakelee · Grubb v. Public Utilities Commission · Inc v. Miller Brewing Company · Kehr v. Smith Barney, Harris Upham & 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term “governmental plan” means a plan established or maintained for its employees by the government of the United States, by the government of any State or political subdivision thereof, or by any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless a federal court possesses subject matter jurisdiction over a dispute, ... any order it makes (other than an order of dismissal or remand) is void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless a federal court possesses subject matter jurisdiction over a dispute, [ ] any order it makes (other than an order of dismissal or remand) is void.”
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.