No. 88-2594’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Johnson v. Watts Regulator Co. (1995), 23916a Hightower v. Texas Hospital Association (1995)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Johnson v. Mississippi · Massachusetts v. Morash · WCLR Radio Station v. Rengers · Donovan v. Dillingham
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““employee welfare benefit plan” shall not include a group or group-type insurance program offered by an insurer to employees or members of an employee organization, under which: (1) No contributions are made by an employer-or employee organization; (2) Participation [in] the program is completely voluntary for employees or members; (3) The sole functions of the employer or employee organization with respect to the program are, without endorsing the program, to permit the insurer to publicize the program to employees or members, to collect premiums through payroll deductions or dues checkoffs and to remit them to the insurer; and' (4)The employer or employee organization receives no consideration in the form of cash or otherwise in connection with the program, other than reasonable compensation, excluding any profit, for administrative services actually rendered in connection with payroll deductions or dues checkoffs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'evidence of the establishment of a plan.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any plan, fund or program which ... is ... established or maintained by an employer ... for the purpose of providing for its participants or their beneficiaries, through the purchase of insurance or otherwise, (A) medical, surgical, or hospital care or benefits, or benefits in the event of sickness, accident, disability, death or unemployment[.]”
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.