American Federation of Unions Local 102 Health & Welfare Fund v. Equitable Life Assurance Society’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 658 · 1988
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Moench v. Robertson (1995), Hermann Hospital v. Meba Medical & Benefits Plan (1988)
37 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 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. § 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. § 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. § 1106 (§ 406 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Logarusic v. United States · Texas State Commission for the Blind v. United States · Leigh v. Engle
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is a fiduciary only with respect to those portions of a plan over which he exercises discretionary authority or control.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i) he exercises any discretionary authority or discretionary control respecting management of such plan or exercises any authority or control respecting • management or disposition of its assets, (ii) he renders investment advice for a fee or other compensation, direct or indirect, with respect to any moneys or other property of such plan, or has any authority or responsibility to do so, or (iii) he has any discretionary authority or discretionary responsibility in the administration of such plan.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Simply urging the purchase of its products does not make an insurance company an ERISA fiduciary with respect to those products.”
6 later decisions 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.