Pappas v. Asbel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Pappas v. Asbel (2001), Mosaica Academy Charter School v. Commonwealth, Department of Education (2002)
2 district · 18 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. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 300E
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At 11:00 a.m. on May 21, 1991, Basile Pappas (“Pappas”) was admitted to Haverford Community Hospital (“Haverford”) through its emergency room complaining of paralysis and numbness in his extremities. At the time of his admission, Pappas was an insured of HMO-PA, a health maintenance organization operated by U.S. Healthcare. Dr. Stephen Dickter, the emergency room physician, concluded that Pappas was suffering from an epidural abscess which was pressing on Pappas’ spinal column. Dr. Dickter consulted with a neurologist and a neurosurgeon; the physicians concurred that Pappas’ condition constituted a neurological emergency. Given the circumstances, Dr. Dickter felt that it was in Pappas’ best interests to receive treatment at a university hospital. Dr. Dickter made arrangements to transfer Pappas to Jefferson University Hospital (“Jefferson”) for further treatment. At approximately 12:40 p.m. when the ambu lance arrived, Dr. Dickter was alerted to the fact that U.S. Healthcare was denying authorization for treatment at Jefferson. Ten minutes later, Dr. Dickter contacted U.S. Healthcare to obtain authorization for the transfer to Jefferson. At l:[05]p.m., U.S. Healthcare responded to Dr. Dickter’s inquiry and advised him that authorization for treatment at Jefferson was still being denied, but that Pappas could be transferred to either Hahnemann University (“Hahnemann”), Temple University or Medical College of Pennsylvania (“MCP”). Dr. Dickter immediately contacted Hahnemann. Th”
3 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.