Anthony Rutledge Afl Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Health and Welfare Order and Amended v. Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather & Geraldson Mitchell Whitehead Opinion’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions

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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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “fulfill[] the statutory mandate of broad preemption without intruding upon state laws beyond the intention of Congress and the objectives of ERISA”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Nga Bui v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Abraham v. Norcal Waste Systems Inc.

2. “[S]tate laws that: (1) mandate employee benefit structures or their administration; (2) bind employers or plan administrators to particular choices or preclude uniform administrative practice; and (3) provide alternative enforcement mechanisms to obtain ERISA plan benefits.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Albin v. Qwest Communications Corp. · 699 F. Supp. 2d 1209 - Cavanaugh Ex Rel. Cavanaugh v. Providence Health Plan

3. “look both to the `objectives of the [FEHBA] statute as a guide to the scope of the state law that Congress understood would survive,' as well as to the nature of the effect of the state law on[FEHBA] plans.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Abraham v. Norcal Waste Systems Inc. · John W. Dishman v. Unum Life Insurance Company Of America