Best v. Cyrus’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.3d 932 · 2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2023
3 federal appellate ·
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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Varity Corporation v. Howe · Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. · Lopresti v. Terwilliger · Brock v. Hendershott
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fiduciary duties under ERISA “draw much of their content from the common law of trusts.” Varity Corp. v. Howe, 516 U.S. 489, 496 , 116 S.Ct. 1065 , 134 L.Ed.2d 130 (1996). Under ordinary trust law, to administer a trust is to perform the duties imposed, or exercise the powers conferred, by the trust document. Id. at 502 , 516 U.S. 489 , 116 S.Ct. 1065 , 134 L.Ed.2d 130 . A trust document implicitly confers “ ‘such powers as are necessary or appropriate for the carrying out of the purposes’ of the trust.” Id. (quoting 3 A. Scott & W. Fratcher, Law of Trusts § 186, at 6 (4th ed.1988)). “There is more to plan (or trust) administration than simply-complying with the specific duties imposed by the plan documents or statutory regime; it also includes the activities that are ‘ordinary and natural means’ of achieving the ‘objective’ of the plan.” Id. at 504, 516 U.S. 489 , 116 S.Ct. 1065 , 134 L.Ed.2d 130 (quoting G. Bogert & G. Bogert, Law of Trusts and Trustees § 551, at 41-52 (rev.2d ed.1992)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c). In reviewing the district court's grant or denial of summary judgment, this Court”
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.