Burkey v. Government Employees Hospital Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 656 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Goepel v. National Postal Mail Handlers Union (1994), Spence v. Omaha Indemnity Insurance (1993)
7 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 · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · English v. General Electric Co. · Morrison v. Olson · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of any contract under this chapter which relate to the nature or extent of coverage or benefits (including payments with respect to benefits) shall supersede and preempt any State or local law, or any regulation issued thereunder, which relates to health insurance or plans to the extent that such law or regulation is inconsistent with such contractual provision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fundamentally `a question of Congressional intent ...' [Cit.].”
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.