Hess v. Reg-Ellen Machine Tool Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.3d 653 · 2005
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, Inc. (2008), Pourghoraishi v. Flying J, Inc. (2006)
24 federal appellate ·
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. § 1107 (§ 407 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Judith Perlman v. Swiss Bank Corporation Comprehensive Disability Protection Plan · Hildebrandt v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources · Van Boxel v. Journal Co. Employees' Pension Trust
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that we give deference to the plan administrator's interpretation is especially applicable when plan language is ambiguous, for that is precisely when the administrator exercises his grant of discretion.”
2 later decisions 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.