No. 91-3476’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2017
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, 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.
“[i]t is undisputed that prejudgment interest typically is granted to make a plaintiff whole because the defendant may wrongfully benefit from the plaintiff's money.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) the offending parties’ culpability or bad faith; (2) the ability of the offending parties to satisfy an award of attorney’s fees; (3) the deterrent effect of an award of attorney’s fees against the offending party; (4) the benefit conferred on members of the plan as a whole; and (5) the relative merits of the parties’ positions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“offering no explanation for its decision to award attorney's fees”
2 later decisions 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.