Fuller v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 1016 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc. (1999), Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc. (1997)
26 federal appellate · 21 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 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 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. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when it appears that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of the claims that would entitle him to relief, accepting the well-pleaded allegations of the complaint as true and construing them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the view of the Department that it would be contrary to congressional intent to conclude that states, while having the authority to apply insurance laws to such plans, do not have the authority to require and enforce registration, licensing, reporting and similar requirements necessary to establish and monitor compliance with those laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Norton“), to create an ERISA welfare benefit plan. The plan offered employees of its members health, disability, occupational illness or accident, and other benefits. To provide benefits, the IAEA established the International Association of Entrepreneurs of America Benefit Trust (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Norton
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.