Nos. 96-16172’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2017
3 district · 2 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
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Peacock v. Thomas · Bush v. Vera
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [plaintiffs] urge and adopt the Sixth Circuit’s approach to suits brought by plans under ERISA. See [Saramar, 782 F.2d at 581]. In Saramar, the Sixth Circuit concluded that “the Plan, as the party before the court, necessarily includes those who must act for the Plan to administer it and to effectuate its policies.” Id. Because the Plan’s administrators had discretionary control over the Plan, the court determined that “the Plan as a party, then, comes under the ERISA definition of a ‘fiduciary.’ ” Id .... [H]owever, we are not free to follow the Sixth Circuit and we decline to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Defendant] is correct that the [ ] Plan itself does not have standing to sue under 29 U.S.C. S 1132(a), which limits eligibility for civil enforcement of ERISA to ERISA plan participants, beneficiaries, and fiduciaries, and the Secretary of Labor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ERISA plans[ ] are not fiduciaries entitled to sue under ERISA.”
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.