Sharron v. Amalgamated Insurance Agency Services., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 562 · 1983
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Brown v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. (1990), Hansen v. Continental Insurance (1991)
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Lillian Yanks Rehmar v. Bernard L. Smith
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focus on only one page of the summary [would] represent[ ] an unrealistically narrow view of how a reasonably prudent employee would read and review this important document.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is impossible, of course, to ascertain at the establishment of a fixed contribution type employee benefit plan what precise payments will be available for distribution to beneficiaries at some future date. The level of those payments can be established with certainty only by reference to general economic conditions, investment yields, the relative strength of a particular established fund, and the actual and projected levels of demands made upon the fund for payments at any specific time. Because of this confluence of complex economic considerations, trustees of a fixed contribution trust fund must, in most circumstances, be accorded some discretion in determining questions of eligibility and the precise contours of benefits to be awarded. Sharron v. Amalgamated Insurance Agency Services, Inc., 704 F.2d 562 , 564 (11th Cir.1983) (quoting Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of America, Local Union No. 15 v. Stuart Plastering Co., 512 F.2d 1017 , 1026 (5th Cir.1975) (citations omitted)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Trustees in the Administration of the Pension Plan must be sustained as a matter of law unless plaintiff can prove such activities have been arbitrary or capricious.”
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.