Kosty v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.2d 744 · 1963
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 17 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably United Mine Workers of America Health & Retirement Funds v. Robinson (1982), Miles v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund Employee Pension Benefit Plan (1983)
84 federal appellate · 17 district · 9 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 Lewis v. Benedict Coal Corp. · Southern Pac Co v. Bogert · Minnesota v. National Tea Co. · Gunderson Bros. Engineering Corp. v. Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp. · Danti v. Lewis
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“they have acted arbitrarily or capriciously towards one of the persons to whom their trust obligations run.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he administrative file, which was introduced into evidence by the Trustees themselves, is replete with documentary evidence showing that the case was still not closed in 1960, when this action was commenced.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he institutional arrangements creating this Fund and specifying the purposes to which it is to be devoted are cast expressly in fiduciary form,”
3 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.