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Severstal Wheeling Inc. v. WPN Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
July 2019
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 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. § 1105 (§ 405 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)

Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson

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. ““To state a claim under ERISA [§ 1109(a) ] ... for breach of [a] fiduciary duty, plaintiffs must allege that (1) defendants were fiduciaries of the plan who, (2) acting within their capacities as plan fiduciaries, (3) engaged in conduct constituting a breach of an ERISA fiduciary duty.” See In re Pfizer Inc. ERISA Litig., [No. 04 Civ. 10071(LTS)(JFE),] 2009 WL 749545 , at (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 20, 2009) (citing 29 U.S.C. § 1109 ; Pegram v. Herdrich, 530 U.S. 211, 222-224 , 120 S.Ct. 2143 , 147 L.Ed.2d 164 (2000)).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the legal authority to make any decision concerning the management or disposition of the plans' assets or the practical ability to effectuate any such decision,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the only entities that could make any decisions on the management or disposition of the plans' assets ... were the plans themselves, and the investment manager”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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