FMC Medical Plan v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.3d 1258 · 1997
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson (2002), Blue Cross & Blue Shield v. Sanders (1998)
33 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Varity Corporation v. Howe · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Tw Electrical Service Inc Nn v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Association · T.W. Electrical Service, Inc. v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Ass'n · MSR Exploration, Ltd. v. Meridian Oil, Inc.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A civil action may be brought— (3) by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary (A) to enjoin any act or practice which violates any provision of this subchapter or the terms of the plan, or (B) to obtain other appropriate equitable relief (i) to redress such violations....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]lthough they often dance around the word, what petitioners in fact seek is nothing other than compensatory damages — monetary relief for all losses their plan sustained as a result of the alleged breach”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Essentially, FMC seeks a breach of contract claim for monetary relief, albeit under its classification of `equitable reimbursement.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.