McLeod v. Oregon Lithoprint Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.3d 376 · 1996
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Toumajian v. Frailey (1998), Pereira v. Farace (2005)
23 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Varity Corporation v. Howe · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Wrenn v. McFadden · Texas State Commission for the Blind v. United States · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. 38 The basis of [McLeod's] complaint is that the fiduciaries failed to notify her in a timely manner of her right to elect cancer coverage. This is in essence a negligence claim, for which she seeks to be made whole through an award of money damages equal in amount to the benefits that she would have been paid and compensation for her emotional distress. 39 Id. Even though McLeod asserted that”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he status of the defendant, whether fiduciary or nonfiduciary, does not affect the question of whether damages constitute `appropriate equitable relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[E]quitable relief' in the form of the recovery of compensatory damages is not an available remedy under § 502(a)(3).”
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.