HECI Exploration Co., Employees' Profit Sharing Plan v. Holloway’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 513 · 1988
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Rodriguez-Abreu v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. (1993), Smart v. Gillette Company Long-Term Disability Plan (1995)
50 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Johnson v. Zerbst · Singleton v. Wulff · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala.
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider an argument advanced for the first time on appeal,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this particular case, we are reviewing the decision of the district court in its capacity as an appellate court. Several different standards of review govern our decision, depending on the nature of the holdings reviewed. Where the disputed holding involves a matter that is within the district court’s discretion, we will affirm the judgment of a district court acting in its appellate role unless the court has clearly abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A civil action may be brought— (1) by a participant or beneficiary— (B) to recover benefits due to him under the terms of his plan to enforce his rights under the terms of the plan, or to clarify his rights to future benefits under the terms of the plan;”
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.