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← 6 F.3d 1028 - Elmore

Elmore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
April 1997
most recently cited

1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Doerr v. Doerr

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As we get more time, we will answer your questions and publish information to the extent that it can be done on a legal and factual basis. We are, however, giving you information now based on our present plans which are subject to revision to meet changing situations.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'for the exclusive purpose of ... providing benefits to participants ... in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plan insofar as such documents and instruments are consistent with the provisions of this title or Title IV.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “shall provide for one or more named fiduciaries who jointly or severally shall have authority to control and manage the operation and administration of the plan.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.