Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Health & Welfare Fund v. Pathology Laboratories of Arkansas, P.A.’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 1251 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2014
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Wisconsin Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395X (§ 1861 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, Inc. · American Airlines, Inc. v. Wolens
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [trial] court observed that patients agree when entering the Baptist Hospital to pay all bills, whether or not the fees were covered by insurance, and it held that the coverage limitations in the Fund's Plan Document could not alter the patient's contractual commitments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in ERISA prevents medical professionals from submitting—and state courts from enforcing—bills for services that are not covered by welfare benefit plans. Although ERISA preempts state law that “relates to” plans, 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (a), that clause does not annul state laws of general applicability just because they affect the price of medical care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Restitution by pension and welfare funds is governed by federal common law in the shadow of ERISA.”); UIU Severance Pay Trust Fund v. Local Union No. 18-U, United Steelworkers, 998 F .2d 509, 512 (7th Cir. 1993) (”
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.