Confer v. Custom Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 34 · 1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably In Re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & ERISA (2003), Kayes
12 federal appellate · 11 district ·
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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Bates v. State Bar · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co. · Fields v. Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. · Moore v. Texas
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder ERISA, a person `is a fiduciary with respect to a plan' only `to the extent' that `he has any discretionary authority or discretionary responsibility in the administration of such plan.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“individual discretionary roles as to plan administration.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clarence Kayes Gene Kennedy Sharon Kennedy Wiley Lacy John R. Maurer Lester Reynolds Shirley Reynolds Hollis Rollins Donald Filby Jack Miller James Lovell Paul S. Brady Wilfred A. Blain Lloyd S. Tucker Donald J. Schoenhofer v. Pacific Lumber Company Maxxam Group, Inc. Maxxam, Inc. Charles Hurwitz Paul N. Schwartz James Iaco William Leone, Clarence Kayes Gene Kennedy Sharon Kennedy Wiley Lacy John R. Maurer Lester Reynolds Shirley Reynolds Hollis Rollins Donald Filby Jack Miller James Lovell Paul S. Brady Wilfred A. Blain Lloyd S. Tucker v. Pacific Lumber Company Maxxam Group, Inc. Maxxam, Inc. Charles Hurwitz Paul N. Schwartz James Iaco William Leone · 782 F. Supp. 2d 760 - Crocker v. KV PHARMACEUTICAL CO.“In determining who is a fiduciary under ERISA, courts consider whether a party has exercised discretionary authority or control over a plan's management, assets, or administration.”
3 later decisions 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.