39 Wash. App. 838 - Hepler v. CBS, INC.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2009
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 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 Hines v. Davidowitz · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Savage v. Jones · Lillian Yanks Rehmar v. Bernard L. Smith · Bayles v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n actions to enforce benefit rights under a welfare plan covered by ERISA, federal substantive law controls ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be perceived as arbitrary and capricious.”
1 later decision 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.