Morrissey v. Segal’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.2d 121 · 1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Morrissey v. Curran (1981), United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1992)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Dioguardi v. United States · Cass v. United States · Roaden v. Kentucky · United States v. Mississippi
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant trustees, however, are entitled to be reimbursed for those fees incurred in defending their behavior in the non-Perry payments. The beneficent aims of § 501 should not be frustrated by construing its terms with such uncompromising rig- or that competent individuals are discouraged from assuming a fiduciary role in union affairs. A pension trustee who has acted blamelessly in a good faith effort to promote what he reasonably believed to be the purposes of the trust should not be required to shoulder the burden of his defense when subsequent events prove his decision to have been an improvident one. See 3 Scott, The Law of Trusts, § 188.4 at 1535 (3d ed.1967).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Concern that the union subsidization of attorneys’ fees will represent new bounty to alleged malefactors or enable officer-defendants financially to overwhelm the § 501 plaintiff is inapposite where, as here, the lawsuit has already terminated and the trustees have been substantially absolved. See generally, Counsel Fees for Union Officers Under the Fiduciary Provisions of the Landrum-Griffin, 73 Yale L.J. 443 (1964).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough these decisions indicate that trustees might seek reimbursement in the event that they were eventually exonerated, see, e.g., Holdeman v. Sheldon, 311 F.2d 2 , 3 (2d Cir.1962); Highway Truckers I, supra, at 622, in no case was it suggested that indemnification would be required or even proper after an adjudication that trustees had breached their duty to the union.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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