Chao v. Malkani’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.3d 290 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2021
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1053 (§ 203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 403 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1106 (§ 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1108 (§ 408 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson · California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement v. Dillingham Construction, N. A. · Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. · Boggs v. Boggs
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of conduct for those with discretionary authority over employee benefit plans. Cent. States, Se. & Sw. Areas Pension Fund v. Cent. Transp., Inc., 472 U.S. 559, 570 , 105 S.Ct. 2833 , 86 L.Ed.2d 447 (1985). Most notably, ERISA requires fiduciaries to abide by the general duties of loyalty and care that were firmly rooted in the common law of trusts. See id. at 570-71 , 105 S.Ct. 2833 ; see also Restatement (Second) of Trusts §§ 170, 174 (1959). The duty of loyalty requires that a fiduciary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chao v. Malkani“to perform many administrative functions for the Plan, which included, inter alia, calculating ISN's annual required contribution, determining which employees had become fully vested and which had forfeited their benefits, distributing Plan assets to retired employees, and reimbursing other entities for their expenses in administering the Plan. Over its life, the Plan has employed four different third-party administrators, including Principal Life Insurance Company (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chao v. Malkani“(emphasis added). It in no way defines the term by reference to an employee's participation in the plan. Defendants' interpretation therefore lacks even the most basic textual support, and is, as the district aptly noted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chao v. Malkani
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.