Davis’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
4 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
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · De Nobel · Morse v. Stanley · Fine v. Semet
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'contrary to the clear language of the [p]lan,' " De Nobel, 885 F.2d at 1188 (quoting Dennard v. Richards Group, Inc., 681 F.2d 306 , 316 (5th Cir.1982)), the decision will constitute an abuse of discretion. See Davis v. Burlington Indus., Inc., 966 F.2d 890 , 895 (4th Cir.1992) ("If the plan language is unambiguous, however, we would not defer to a contrary interpretation by the”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When reviewing a denial of benefits under ERISA, a threshold question for reviewing eourts is “whether the particular plan at issue vests in its administrators discretion either to settle disputed eligibility questions or to construe ‘doubtful’ provisions.” De Nobel v. Vitro Corp., 885 F.2d 1180, 1186 (4th Cir.1989). If the plan grants fiduciaries the discretion to settle disputed eligibility questions or to construe “doubtful” provisions of the plan, “a reviewing court may disturb the challenged denial of benefits only upon a showing of procedural or substantive abuse.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'contrary to the clear language of the [p]lan,'”
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.