Hartle v. Packard Electric’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 354 · 1989
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Memorial Hospital System v. Northbrook Life Insurance (1990), Christopher v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1992)
19 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1001 (§ 2 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 Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not an action to recover benefits under a plan.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prerequisite to this exercise of [complete preemption] jurisdiction, however, is that the state law claims actually be preempted by ERISA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish pension plan regulation as exclusively a federal concern.”
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.