Shofer v. Hack Co.’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 1316 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Thiokol Corporation v. Department Of Treasury (1993), Travelers Insurance v. Cuomo (1993)
5 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Komen v. Robbins · In re Whittington
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ERISA does not expressly provide a limitation period for bringing a private action other than for claims of a breach of fiduciary duty. Therefore, for any claim that does not assert that Hack breached a fiduciary duty, the court must look to state law and apply an analogous limitation provision.”) Miles v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Ret. Fund Employee Pension Ben. Plan, 698 F.2d 593 , 598 (2d Cir.1983) (”
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.