Newman Howard v. Edward A. Shay’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 1484 · 1996
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Braden v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2009), Kearney v. Standard Insurance (1999)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · California v. Texas · Donovan v. Bierwirth · Leigh v. Engle · Donovan v. Cunningham
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make certain that reliance on the expert's advice is reasonably justified under the circumstances.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... [a] fiduciary shall discharge his duties with respect to a plan solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries and— (A) for the exclusive purpose of: (i) providing benefits to participants and their beneficiaries; and (ii) defraying reasonable expenses of administering the plan; (B) with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; (C) by diversifying the investments of the plan so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the cireum- stances it is clearly prudent not to do so; and (D) in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plan.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`question the methods and assumptions that do not make sense.'”
4 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.