Owens v. Storehouse, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 394 · 1993
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Clark v. Coats & Clark, Inc. (1993), Grosz-Salomon v. Paul Revere Life Insurance (2001)
33 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 201 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1140 (§ 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to retaliate for the exercise of a right or to interfere with the attainment of an entitled right.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ith regard to an employer’s right to change medical plans, Congress evidenced its recognition of the need for flexibility in rejecting the automatic vesting of welfare plans. Automatic vesting was rejected because the costs of such plans are subject to fluctuating and unpredictable variables. Actuarial decisions concerning fixed annuities are based on fairly stable, data, and vesting is appropriate. In contrast, medical insurance must take account of inflation, changes in medical practice and technology, and increases in the cpsts of treatment independent of inflation. These unstable variables prevent accurate predictions of future needs and costs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under the plan.”
4 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.