Administrative Committee of the Sea Ray Employees' Stock Ownership & Profit Sharing Plan v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.3d 981 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Jones v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (2004), Hensley v. Northwest Permanente P.C. Retirement Plan & Trust (2001)
9 federal appellate · 3 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. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Davis Farmers Bank Capital Trust Co of Frankfort Kentucky v. Kentucky Finance Cos Retirement Plan
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o limit an administrator's discretion to only those terms explicitly defined [by the plan] would undermine the administrator's discretionary power or require companies to write interminably long plans to account for every term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sandra Hensley“discretion to interpret and construe the Plan logically extends to terms of the Plan, since any interpretation of a plan turns on the meaning of terms contained therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sandra Hensley
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.