Bartling’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably 23923t Faircloth, Michael G. Schroyer (1999)
9 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) Administrator’s refusal to supply .... (1) Any administrator (A) who fails to meet the requirements of paragraph (1) of (4) of section 1166 of this title or section 1021(e)(1) of this title with respect to a participant or beneficiary, or (B) who fails or refuses to comply with a request for any information which such administrator is required by this subchapter to furnish to a participant or beneficiary (unless such failure or refusal results from matters reasonably beyond the control of the administrator) by mailing the material requested to the last known address of the requesting participant or beneficiary within 30 days after such request may in the court’s discretion be personally liable to such participant or beneficiary in the amount of up to $100 a day form the date of such failure or refusal, and the court may in its discretion order such other relief as it deems proper.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“instruments under which the plan is established or operated.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all other things being equal, courts should favor disclosure where it would help participants understand their rights,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 20 Employee Benefits Cas. 2493, Pens. Plan Guide P 23923t Janice Fay Faircloth Evelyn D. Frederick Callweall W. Smiling v. Lundy Packing Company Annabelle L. Fetterman, Trustee Lundy Packing Company Stock Ownership Plan Mabel F. Held, Trustee Lundy Packing Company Stock Ownership Plan, and John Does, American Association of Retired Persons National Employment Lawyers Association, Amici Curiae · 23923t Faircloth
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.