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Marks v. Watters’s Empirical Analysis

322 F.3d 316 · 2003

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
February 2017
most recently cited

9 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 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. § 1132 (§ 502 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 · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · Pegram v. Herdrich

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

  1. “mixed eligibility and treatment decisions as a practical matter reduce to the stuff of State malpractice claims and not to traditional breach of fiduciary duty claims,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Robbie Lee Land v. Cigna Healthcare of Florida · Land v. Cigna Healthcare
  2. “to file civil actions to, among other things, recover benefits, enforce rights conferred by an ERISA plan, remedy breaches of fiduciary duty, clarify rights to benefits, and enjoin violations of ERISA.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Singh v. Prudential Health Care Plan, Inc.
  3. “shall supersede any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Difelice v. Aetna U.S. Healthcare

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.