Wilson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 1010 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2010
11 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 · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Granito v. United States · Evans v. United States · Rector v. Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas, Et Al.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construe each provision consistently with the others and as part of an integrated whole so as to render none of them nugatory.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“administrator or fiduciary discretionary authority to determine eligibility for benefits or to construe the terms of the plan.”
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.