Gersman v. Group Health Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 886 · 1992
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 25 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Rivers v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1994)
55 federal appellate · 25 district · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Linkletter v. Walker · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Russello 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, given the convoluted legislative history of the Act and the war of interests firing at each other across the floor of both legislative houses, one might view these two subsections not as redundancies, but rather as insurance policies [for those who opposed retroactivity].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court would be well advised to take with a large grain of salt floor debate and statements placed into the Congressional Record which purport to create an interpretation for the legislation that is before us”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.