Bogue v. Ampex Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 1319 · 1992
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 26 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Insurance (2006), Kearney v. Standard Insurance (1999)
94 federal appellate · 26 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 · Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Gozlon-Peretz 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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“includes even one important discretionary element, and the power to apply that element is unambiguously retained by its administrator.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ongoing, particularized, administrative, discretionary analysis”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the program, like the plan[] in Fort Halifax, ... was triggered by a single event, that event would occur more than once, at a different time for each employee. There was no way to carry out that obligation with the unthinking, one-time, nondiscretionary application of the plan [as did the] administrators in Fort Halifax. ...”
5 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.