Sullivan v. LTV Aerospace & Defense Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the burden of proving that an administrator was influenced by a conflict of interest rests with the plaintiff
• noting that “[c]ourts addressing this issue have almost uniformly held that under the common law of trusts proceedings to determine rights under employee benefit plans are equitable in character and thus a matter for a judge, not a jury” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Vilma Lissette Vega Jose Vega v. National Life Insurance Services, Inc., Pan-American Life Insurance Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-01· cited 357×
• Maria H. Pinto v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
  Third Circuit· 2000-07-19· cited 244×
• Doyle v. Paul Revere Life Insurance
  First Circuit· 1998-06-02· cited 189×
• Anthony R. Caputo David A. Cook Paul B. Pebbles Duncan B. Robertson v. Pfizer, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2001-10-09· cited 182×
• McCauley v. First Unum Life Insurance
  Second Circuit· 2008-12-24· cited 153×
• Chambers v. Family Health Plan Corp.
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-11-13· cited 152×
• Post v. Hartford Insurance
  Third Circuit· 2007-09-13· cited 111×
• Edward H. Mathews, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Sears Pension Plan and Sears, Roebuck & Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-06-26· cited 98×
• Doe v. Travelers Insurance
  First Circuit· 1999-01-28· cited 87×
• Marvin Pulvers v. First Unum Life Insurance Company
  First Circuit· 2000-04-19· cited 75×
• Sullivan v. Ltv Aerospace and Defense Company, Ltv
  Second Circuit· 1996-05-06· cited 37×
• Adams v. Cyprus Amax Minerals Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-07-16· cited 34×
• Pens. Plan Guide (Cch) P 23931u Katherine F. Whitney, as of the Estate of Barbara Whitney v. Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield
  Second Circuit· 1997-02-10· cited 30×
• Sheehan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  S.D. New York· 2005-03-17· cited 29×
• Amara v. Cigna Corp.
  D. Connecticut· 2008-06-13· cited 18×
• Nagele v. Electronic Data Systems Corp.
  W.D. New York· 2000-04-27· cited 18×
• Pelosi v. Schwab Capital Markets, L.P.
  S.D. New York· 2006-11-17· cited 17×
• Doe v. HMO-CNY
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2004-11-19· cited 15×
• Cronin v. Zurich American Insurance
  S.D. New York· 2002-02-19· cited 12×
• Armstrong v. LIBERTY MUT. LIFE ASSUR. OF BOSTON
  S.D. New York· 2003-06-30· cited 10×

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Santosky v. Kramer
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 9,761×
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-21· cited 6,595×
• Addington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-30· cited 3,004×
• Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-24· cited 1,450×
• Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 1,005×
• Fred Brown v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-04-25· cited 365×
• Gloria Pagan v. Nynex Pension Plan and Nynex Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1995-04-12· cited 344×
• Blau v. Del Monte Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-12-05· cited 326×
• Katsaros v. Cody
  Second Circuit· 1984-06-29· cited 277×
• York v. First Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court· 1985-10-07· cited 257×
• Claude Wardle, Sr. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-08-14· cited 255×
• Daniel v. Eaton Corp.
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-02-09· cited 235×
• Chaunt v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-11-14· cited 215×
• Hebra A. Berry v. Ciba-Geigy Corporation
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-05-13· cited 211×
• Vann K. Howard and Kathryn D. Howard v. Parisian, Inc., Etc. Parisian Employees Health Care Plan Hahn Shoe Company Protective Life Insurance Company
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-01-20· cited 173×
• Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1991-01-07· cited 165×
• Dean Borst v. Chevron Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-12-01· cited 111×
• In re Vorpahl
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-12-17· cited 101×
• Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff v. Linda Ann Digregorio
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-03-02· cited 84×