Maria Bowles Brad Whitney Sportswear Profit-Sharing Plan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Johnson, In re Electronic Data Systems Corp. "Erisa" Litigation (2004)
11 district · 5 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 Varity Corporation v. Howe · DCD Programs, Ltd. v. Leighton · Sierra Club v. Penfold · Jackson v. Hayakawa · Howey v. United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court did not make any specific findings of prejudice, bad faith, or futility. The court merely explained that it denied The Plans’ motion because they knew that Ms. Reade was acting in her capacity as trustee of the Robert B. Reade Trust. This explanation, however, does not satisfy the district court’s duty to make findings supported by the record showing that the motion was prejudicial to the defendant, was made in bad faith, or was futile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 15(a) is very liberal and leave to amend 'shall be freely given when justice so requires.'”
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.