Comrie v. IPSCO, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.3d 839 · 2011
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 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 · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Glenn · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders · 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]eferential review is exceptional, authorized only when the contracts that establish the...plan confer interpretive discretion in no uncertain terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is easier, not harder ..., to honor discretion-conferring clauses in contracts that govern the actions of [these] non-fiduciaries”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Firestone tells us that a contract conferring interpretive discretion must be respected”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.