Springer v. Wal-Mart Associates' Group Health Plan’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 897 · 1990
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Fallick v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1998), HCA Health Services of Georgia, Inc. v. Employers Health Insurance (2001)
39 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Amato v. Bernard · John Mason v. Continental Group, Inc. · Kross v. Western Electric Co. · Amaro v. Continental Can Co. · Makar v. Health Care Corporation of Mid-Atlantic
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-established in this Circuit that plaintiffs in ERISA cases must normally exhaust available administrative remedies under their ERISA-governed plans before they may bring suit in federal court. This applies both to breach of contract actions ... and to actions based on alleged statutory violations.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he decision whether to apply the exhaustion requirement is committed to the district court's sound discretion and can be overturned on appeal only if the district court has clearly abused its discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he very premise of the exhaustion requirement...is that the right to seek federal court review matures only after [the exhaustion] requirement has been appropriately satisfied or otherwise excused.”
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.