Harris Trust and Savings Bank As Trustee for the Ameritech Pension Trust v. Salomon Smith Barney Inc’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
189 federal appellate · 106 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 717 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson (2002), PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin (2001)
189 federal appellate · 106 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHarris Trust & Savings Bank v. Salomon Bros. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 4975 (§ 2003 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1105 (§ 405 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Russello v. United States · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation · Hughes Aircraft Co. v. Jacobson
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 717 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has long been settled that when a trustee in breach of his fiduciary duty to the beneficiaries transfers trust property to a third person, the third person takes the property subject to the trust, unless he has purchased the property for value and without notice of the fiduciary’s breach of duty.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual or constructive knowledge of the circumstances that rendered the transaction unlawful.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Persons empowered to bring a civil action A civil action may be brought — ... (2) by the Secretary, or by a participant, beneficiary or fiduciary for appropriate relief under section 1109 of this title; (3) by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary (A) to enjoin any act or practice which violates any provision of this subchapter or the terms of the plan, or (B) to obtain other appropriate equitable relief (i) to redress such violations or (ii) to enforce any provisions of this subchapter or the terms of the plan.”
12 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.