Shea v. Esensten’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 193 Ill. 2d 433 - Neade v. Portes (2000), Griggs v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. (2001)
11 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obligation to deal fairly and honestly with all plan members,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ERISA supersedes state laws insofar as they “relate to any employee benefit plan.” 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (a). To this end, the language of ERISA’s preemption clause sweeps broadly, embracing common law causes of action if they have a. connection with or a reference to an ERISA plan. See Pilot Life Ins. Co. v. Dedeaux, 481 U.S. 41, 47-48 , 107 S.Ct. 1549, 1552-53 , 95 L.Ed.2d 39 (1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When an HMO’s financial incentives discourage a treating doctor from providing essential health care referrals for conditions covered under the plan benefit structure, the incentives must be disclosed and the failure to do so is a breach of ERISA’s fiduciary duties.” Shea, 107 F.3d at 629.”
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.