21 Employee Benefits Cas 2249 Pens Plan Guide P 23940b’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 312 F. Supp. 2d 898 - In Re CMS Energy ERISA Litigation (2004), 744 F. Supp. 2d 733 - McKinney v. Bayer Corp. (2010)
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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Wrenn v. McFadden
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to dismiss under Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 12(b)(6) requires the Court to construe the complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, accept all of the complaint’s factual allegations as true, and determine whether the plaintiff undoubtedly can prove no set of facts in support of the claims that would entitle relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person is a fiduciary only with respect to those aspects of the plan over which he exercises authority or control.”
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.