Crowell v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.3d 295 · 2008
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Holland v. International Paper Co. Retirement Plan (2009), Anderson v. Cytec Industries, Inc. (2010)
17 federal appellate · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 415 (§ 2004 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Glenn · Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Yohey v. Collins
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the administrator has given the plan a uniform construction, (2) whether the interpretation is consistent with a fair reading of the plan, and (3) any unanticipated costs resulting from different interpretations of the plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the individual cash payment in this case does not itself require continuing administration, the letter of which it is a part contains other provisions that do.... [T]he cash payment ... relies upon calculations made under plans that require continuing administration, and that Letter of Agreement refers specifically to administrative procedures .that must be followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Until recently, this bare assertion was insufficient to establish a conflict of interest claim”; yet, after Glenn,”
1 later decision 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.