Heriberto Chavez v. Plan Benefit Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• vacating a class certification order when, among other things, the court “[did] not identify the common question with any specificity” and “analyze[d] it conclusionally”
• reversing class action where district court responded to “warring factual contentions” concerning putatively common issues with “thin survey” and “unsupported assurance” as explanations for why predominance is satisfied
• reversing a class action where the district court responded to “warring factual contentions” concerning putatively common issues, with a “thin survey” and “unsupported assurance” as explanations for why predominance is satisfied
• “Appellate judges are not finders of fact, and . . . it’s up to the district judge to find the facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mock v. Garland
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-08-01· cited 34×
• Prantil v. Arkema
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-01-22· cited 28×
• United Svcs Automobile v. Sampson
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-10-06· cited 18×
• Angell v. GEICO Advantage Ins
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-05-12· cited 11×
• Chavez v. Plan Benefit Services
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-08-11· cited 4×
• Mosaic Baybrook One, L.P., Mosaic Baybrook Two, L.P., and Mosaic Residential, Inc. v. Tammy Cessor
  Texas Supreme Court· 2023-04-21
• Pentair Residential Filtration, LLC v. Paul Belsome, III D/B/A Belsome H2 Installers
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2024-08-30
• Progressive County Mutual Insurance Company v. Brian Koetter and Elyssa Parven, Individually, and on Behalf of Themselves and for All Others Similarly Situated
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2024-12-31

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-20· cited 4,653×
• General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-14· cited 4,068×
• Comcast Corp. v. Behrend
  Supreme Court· 2013-03-27· cited 1,534×
• Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds
  Supreme Court· 2013-02-27· cited 1,424×
• East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-31· cited 1,222×
• Dianne Castano v. The American Tobacco Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-05-23· cited 871×
• Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-23· cited 776×
• In Re Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation
  Third Circuit· 2009-01-16· cited 549×
• Frances Unger, William Patterson, Lead Gordon Ellis, Lead v. Amedisys Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-02-17· cited 201×
• CE Design Ltd. v. King Architectural Metals, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-03-18· cited 175×
• Gene and Gene LLC v. BIOPAY LLC
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-08-14· cited 134×
• Spano v. the Boeing Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-21· cited 126×
• M.D. Ex Rel. Stukenberg v. Perry
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-03-23· cited 99×
• Madison Ex Rel. Hebert v. Chalmette Refining, L.L.C.
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-04-04· cited 67×
• Robinson v. Texas Automobile Dealers Ass'n
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-10-05· cited 66×
• Richard Tredinnick v. Jackson National Life
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-03-25· cited 51×
• Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation v. Board of Commissioners
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-12-17· cited 43×
• Nina Flecha v. Medicredit, Incorporated
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-01-08· cited 42×
• Vizena v. Union Pacific Railroad
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-02-26· cited 34×
• Mildred R. Copeland v. The Greyhound Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1964-12-09· cited 6×