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Allison v. Dugan’s Empirical Analysis

951 F.2d 828 · 1992

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Donato v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (1994), Trombetta v. Cragin Federal Bank for Savings Employee Stock Ownership Plan (1996)

18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. · Skaw v. United States

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

  1. “is simply not sufficient evidence of bad faith to prevent a well-supported motion for summary judgment. Thus, the district court properly granted summary judgment for the Fund. 29 Yet, even though Allison chose not to challenge specifically this element of the district court's decision, we refuse to affirm the imposition of Rule 11 sanctions. The district court sanctioned Allison because”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “). The Fund is an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (1988) (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “or the union). Allison's union membership required various employers to make contributions on his behalf to the Midwest Operating Engineers Pension Trust Fund (the”
    1 later decision 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.