Kayes’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 87 Cal. App. 4th 805 - Bell v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (2001), In Re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & ERISA (2003)
1 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 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 Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nsofar as [that case] holds that a corporate officer or director acting on behalf of a corporation is not acting in a fiduciary capacity if the corporation is the named plan fiduciary”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when an ERISA plan names a corporation as a fiduciary, the officers who exercise discretion on behalf of that corporation are not fiduciaries ... unless it can be shown that these officers have individual discretionary roles as to plan administration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briscoe · Briscoe v. Fine“individual discretionary roles as to plan administration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briscoe · Briscoe v. Fine
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.