Peter Noorily’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
February 2018
most recently cited
3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Hozier v. Midwest Fasteners, Inc. · Berger v. Edgewater Steel Co. · Nazay v. Miller · Hlinka v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an employer makes decisions about the design of a welfare plan, such as a severance plan, it functions as an employer and not as an administrator and thus is not acting as a fiduciary. Accordingly, an employer can create a plan that furthers its business interests, and it can act according to these interests in amending or terminating the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the administrator through its Corporate Benefits Committee was obliged to implement the decision and thus cannot be deemed to have violated its fiduciary duties by acting according to the 'employer's' determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Similarly, if [the defendant] as employer had determined to award severance benefits then its Corporate Benefits Committee would have been obliged to implement that decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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