23921p Hein’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2017
4 district · 2 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
Relies on Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Varity Corporation v. Howe · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Bates v. State Bar · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates
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.
“Had [plaintiff] met this criterion, ERISA § 204(g) would have protected his benefit from termination. But [plaintiff] did not satisfy the Plan requirement, and we cannot read ERISA to change the terms of the Plan and vest Hein with a benefit for which he never qualified.” Id. At no point did the Third Circuit purport to equate an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary (A) to enjoin any act or practice which violates any provision of this subchapter or the terms of the plan, or (B) to obtain other appropriate equitable relief (i) to redress such violations or (ii) to enforce any provisions of this subchapter or the terms of the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause [the plaintiff] was not entitled to the benefits in the first place, there is no causal link between the alleged breach -12- of fiduciary duty by [the defendants] and the denial of benefits to [the plaintiff]”
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.