23923t Faircloth’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Office of Hawaiian Affairs v. State (2006), Micron Technology, Inc. v. Qimonda AG (In Re Qimonda AG Bankruptcy Litigation) (2010)
10 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962)
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Varity Corporation v. Howe · Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Jizmejian v. United States · Crandon v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“other instruments under which the plan is established or operated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fiduciary shall discharge his duties with respect to a plan solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries and— (A) for the exclusive purpose of: (i) providing benefits to participants and their beneficiaries; and (B) with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; (D) in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plan insofar as such documents and instruments are consistent with the provi sions of this subchapter and subchap-ter III of this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if Congress had intended § 104(b)(4) to encompass all documents that provide information about the plan and benefits, Congress could have used language to that effect”
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.