Yegeta v. Baima’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Lopresti v. Terwilliger (1997), Martin v. Feilen (1992)
54 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 80A · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1102 (§ 402 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. · Hoffman v. Halden
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a manner other than by usual professional functions”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be personally liable to make good to such plan any losses to the plan resulting from each such breach.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exercises any authority or control respecting management or disposition of [a plan's] assets.”
5 later decisions 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.