6 F. Supp. 2d 366 - Negron v. Patel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 5 U.S.C. § 8902
Relies on Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement v. Dillingham Construction, N. A. · Jass v. Prudential Health Care Plan, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That one may refer to the contents of a plan to adduce evidence that it held out a particular person as its employee or agent to help sustain a cause of action does not implicate the concerns underlying the ERISA preemption provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The preemption provision in ERISA, like that in the FEHBA, calls for an examination of how particular state laws `relate to' the insurance plans that the statute regulates.”
1 later decision 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.