Martin v. Feilen’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 660 · 1992
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 23 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Moench v. Robertson (1995), Kuper v. Iovenko (1995)
65 federal appellate · 23 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
Relies on Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Wrenn v. McFadden · Texas State Commission for the Blind v. United States · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · Reiter v. Cooper
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ESOP places employee retirement assets at much greater risk than does the typical diversified ERISA plan”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once the ERISA plaintiff has proved a breach of fiduciary duty and a prima facie case of loss to the plan or ill-gotten profit to the fiduciary, the burden of persuasion shifts to the fiduciary to prove that the loss was not caused by, or his profit was not attributable to, the breach of duty.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Borrowing from trust law, ERISA imposes high standards of fiduciary duty upon those responsible for administering an ERISA plan and investing and disposing of its assets.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 21 Employee Benefits Cas. 1065, Pens. Plan Guide (Cch) P 23942s Alexis M. Herman, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor v. Mercantile Bank, N.A., Lenco, Inc., Employees' Stock Ownership Plan & Trust · 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
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.