Bane v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 11 · 1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Kansa Reinsurance Company Ltd v. Congressional Mortgage Corporation of Texas United Postal Savings & Loan Assn (1994), Kuznik v. Bees Ferry Associates (2000)
3 federal appellate · 2 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)
Relies on Wood v. . Duff-Gordon · Ellsworth v. City of Racine · 97 Ill. App. 3d 22 - Foster Enterprises, Inc. v. Germania Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · 60 Ill. App. 3d 192 - Swager v. Couri
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A partner is a fiduciary of his partners, but not of his former partners, for the withdrawal of a partner terminates the partnership as to him.... Even if the defendants were fiduciaries of the plaintiff, moreover, the business-judgment rule would shield them from liability for mere negligence in the operation of the firm, just as it would shield a corpora tion’s directors and officers, who are fiduciaries of the shareholders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“acted unreasonably in deciding to merge the firm[.]' Id. Rejecting Bane's fiduciary duty claim, the seventh cireuit court held that "[a] partner is a fiduciary of his partners, but not of his former part ners, for the withdrawal of a partner terminates the partnership as to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“acted unreasonably in deciding to merge the firm[.]' Id. Rejecting Bane's fiduciary duty claim, the seventh cireuit court held that”
1 later decision 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.