107 F.3d -959 - Shea v. Esensten’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.3d 625 · 1997
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2018
16 federal appellate ·
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. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Varity Corporation v. Howe · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · Huebner 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fiduciary's covert profiteering at the expense of insureds is inconsistent with its duties of acting 'solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herdrich v. Pegram“limited [the participant's] ability to make an informed choice about his life-saving health care”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fraudulent nondisclosure and misrepresentation about [the plan's] doctor incentive programs”
1 later decision 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.