Leigh v. Engle’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 361 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Estate of Johnson v. Engle (1989), Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel (1994)
16 federal appellate · 2 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. § 78M (§ 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 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. § 1110 (§ 410 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · City of Los Angeles Department of Water v. Manhart · Florida v. Royer · 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no statutory or common-law basis for denying fees to a prevailing trustee where the trust documents specifically contemplate such reimbursement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Firstier Bank, N.A., Omaha, as Trustee of the Profit Sharing Plan and Employees Trust of Land Paving Company v. James R. Zeller Patricia A. Olsen, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Duane H. Olsen James E. Lonergan Bryan Vercoe, Defendants-Third Party Land Paving Company Anthony E. Dombrowski Frank Bosanek Eugene H. Hess Richard J. O'KOnsKy Profit Sharing Plan and Employees Trust of Land Paving Company v. George N. Silence Management Consultant Services, Inc., Third Party and James E. Bachman · Firstier Bank, N.A. v. Zeller“[W]hether the investments were speculative is irrelevant. The administrators' breach did not consist of investment in speculative assets. Rather, the administrators breached their duties when they made investment decisions out of personal motivations, without making adequate provision that the trust's best interests would be served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“section 1109 only allows recovery [for the plan] where there is a causal connection between the use of the plan's assets and the profits made by fiduciaries on the investment of their own assets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 23935h Felber
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.