Spann v. AOL Time Warner, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiff's breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim did not provide an independent basis for relief where the claim was derivative of plaintiff's denial-of-benefits claim
• denying certification where many members of purported class of employees had signed binding releases with varying terms, waiving their right to recover ERISA benefits, thereby subjecting them to unique defenses
• finding than Plaintiffs for a proposed class in an ERISA action failed to show “that they [were] adequate representatives of a Class including individuals subject to a [r]elease defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. Bloomberg, L.P.
  S.D. New York· 2014-03-19· cited 132×
• Raniere v. Citigroup Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2011-11-22· cited 44×
• Talarico v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J.
  S.D. Illinois· 2019-02-12· cited 36×
• Schrank v. Citibank
  S.D. New York· 2004-12-02· cited 27×
• Jensen v. Cablevision Sys. Corp.
  E.D. New York· 2019-02-27· cited 18×
• In re Polaroid Erisa Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2006-09-29· cited 17×
• In re Citigroup Pension Plan Erisa Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2006-12-19· cited 16×
• Romero v. Allstate Insurance
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2014-10-06· cited 10×
• Meidl v. Aetna, Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 2018-10-11· cited 9×
• Bond v. Marriott Intertional, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2014-01-07· cited 8×
• Engler v. Cendant Corp.
  E.D. New York· 2006-05-23· cited 6×
• Tittle v. Enron Corp.
  S.D. Texas· 2005-05-24· cited 6×
• Fiscina v. New York City District Council of Carpenters
  S.D. New York· 2005-11-16· cited 5×
• Fisher v. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
  S.D. New York· 2005-08-25· cited 5×
• In re PE Corp. Securities Litigation
  D. Connecticut· 2005-03-31· cited 4×
• Chapman v. Supplemental Benefit Retirement Plan of Lin Television Corp.
  D. Rhode Island· 2010-07-16

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-25· cited 4,991×
• General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-14· cited 4,068×
• Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-28· cited 3,301×
• Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-23· cited 776×
• LOCKHEED CORP. Et Al. v. SPINK
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 525×
• Unnamed case
  Second Circuit· 2001-10-17· cited 451×
• Robidoux v. Celani
  Second Circuit· 1993-03-10· cited 379×
• Veronica Caridad, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad
  Second Circuit· 1999-07-30· cited 339×
• Marisol A. ex rel. Forbes v. Giuliani
  Second Circuit· 1997-09-26· cited 306×
• Arthur Fallick v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Nationwide Life Insurance Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-12-09· cited 295×
• Robert L. Moore and Jeannette S. Parry v. Painewebber, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2002-10-10· cited 253×
• Gary Plastic Packaging Corp. v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-14· cited 212×
• Chaplin v. NationsCredit Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-10-08· cited 198×
• Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Town of Hyde Park
  Second Circuit· 1995-01-31· cited 161×
• In Re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2003-11-21· cited 156×
• Harrow v. Prudential Insurance Company Of America
  Third Circuit· 2002-01-30· cited 118×
• Sally J. Burke v. Kodak Retirement Income Plan and Kodak Retirement Income Plan Committee
  Second Circuit· 2003-07-17· cited 108×
• David Berger and Gerry Tsupros, on Behalf of Themselves and Others Similarly Situated v. Xerox Corporation Retirement Income Guarantee Plan
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-09-15· cited 104×
• Smith v. Sydnor
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-07-09· cited 90×
• Sharkey v. Ultramar Energy Ltd.
  Second Circuit· 1995-11-16· cited 85×