Chapman v. Klemick’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 1508 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably Latecoere International, Inc. v. United States Department of the Navy (1994), Avery v. City of Talladega (1994)
22 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Lomas Mortgage USA v. Wiese · Nieto v. Ecker · Useden v. Acker · Brock v. Hendershott · Donovan v. Mercer
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person is a fiduciary with respect to a plan to the extent (i) he exercises any discretionary authority or discretionary control respecting management of such plan or exercises any authority or control respecting management or disposition of its assets, (ii) he renders investment advice for a fee or other compensation, direct or indirect, with respect to any moneys or other property of such plan, or has any authority or responsibility to do so, or (iii) he has any discretionary authority or discretionary responsibility in the administration of such plan.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder this rationale anyone performing services for an ERISA plan--be it an attorney, an accountant, a security guard or a janitor--would be rendered a fiduciary insofar as he exercised some control over trust assets and through negligence or dishonesty jeopardized those assets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the arguments against imposing fiduciary status on an attorney who represents a trust fund beneficiary [are] even more compelling than those against imposing fiduciary status on ... attorneys who render advice or services to an ERISA plan or trust fund.”
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.