7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 22 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Bilyeu v. Morgan Stanley Long Term Disability Plan.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bilyeu v. Morgan Stanley Long Term Disability Plan Anchor | green | “nothing in sereboff suggests that a fiduciary can enforce an equitable lien against a beneficiary's general assets when specifically identified funds are no longer in a beneficiary's possession.” | 4 |
| 2 | ACS Recovery Services, Inc. v. Larry Griffi | green | “griffin's attempt to divorce himself from the origin of the fund and its disposition is no more persuasive than if he had directed the money to a close relative. . . . he could not give away that which he did not possess.” | 3 |
| 3 | RES-GA Cobblestone, LLC v. Blake Construction & Development, LLC | green | “what matters is whether the parties' actions objectively manifest an intent to abandon the issues on appeal.” | 3 |
| 4 | Gutta v. Standard Select Trust Insurance Plans | green | “the insurer may bring its counterclaim for reimbursement even if the benefits it paid gutta are not specifically traceable to gutta's current assets because of commingling or dissipation.” | 3 |
| 5 | Longaberger Co. v. Kolt | green | “under sereboff, airtran was free to follow a portion of the settlement funds into link and link smith's hands.” | 3 |
| 6 | Thurber v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. | green | “in the government's view, the court of appeals in this case erred in concluding that a plan fiduciary can enforce an equitable lien regardless of whether the funds at issue have been dissipated.” | 3 |
| 7 | Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Health & Welfare Fund v. Lewis | green | “the defendants argued . . . that because the settlement funds have been dissipated, this really is a suit for damages . . . . but the defendants are wrong.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.