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Sciw v. W Jw & Jw’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
April 2016
most recently cited

6 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba · Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc. · Lopresti v. Terwilliger

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “ask whether a person is a fiduciary with respect to the particular activity in question.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[t]he Supreme Court has recognized that ERISA `defines”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Only discretionary acts of plan management or administration, or those acts designed to carry out the very purposes of the plan, are subject to ERISA's fiduciary duties.”
    2 later decisions 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.