Trombetta v. Cragin Federal Bank for Savings Employee Stock Ownership Plan’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.3d 1435 · 1996
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Hess v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance (2001), Cozzie v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (1998)
37 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden · Pokratz v. Jones Dairy Farm
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he arbitrary and capricious standard is the least demanding form”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The phrase `employed by an Employer' as used in the plan contains a defined term, and [the administrator] is free to define the terms in its plan however it wishes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The phrase 'employed by an Employer' ... may be given different meanings than those we have ascribed to similar language in the statute.... As the district court correctly noted, Darden construed the term 'employee' for the purposes of determining who has standing to sue under ERISA. 'Nothing in ERISA, however, compels a plan to use the term 'employee' in the same way it is used in the statute.'); Wolf v. Coca-Cola Co. , 200 F.3d 1337 , 1340 (11th Cir. 2000) (same). Accordingly, a plan administrator's reasonable interpretation of the term”
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.