Ballone’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably In Re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & ERISA (2003), Martinez
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Basic Inc. v. Levinson · Varity Corporation v. Howe · Virginia Bankshares, Inc. v. Sandberg · Goldman v. Belden · In Re Time Warner Inc. Securities Litigation
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“about the special relationship of trust and confidence between the plan fiduciary and beneficiary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“discharge [their] duties with respect to a plan solely in the interest of the participants and ... with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiarity with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“discharge his duties with respect to a plan solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries.”
2 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.