Evans v. Bexley’s Empirical Analysis
750 F.2d 1498 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 40 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1597, 41 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 36,451 Irving P. Gray v. New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, Irving P. Gray v. New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (1986), Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Neusser (1987)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 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. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · California v. Texas · Donovan v. Bierwirth · Iron Workers Local # 272 v. Bowen · Cutaiar v. Marshall
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n federal practice any question which has been presented to the trial court for a ruling and not thereafter waived or withdrawn is preserved for review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“nothing in ... this title shall be construed to prohibit any fiduciary from--(3) serving as a fiduciary in addition to being an officer, employee, agent, or other representative of a party in interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requires that the district court state the reasons for his disposition of a request for attorney's fees.... His analysis must include the criteria enunciated in Iron Workers....”
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.