Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Bell Transit Company’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.3d 706 · 1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2016
6 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 4201 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 4202 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1384 (§ 4204 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1399 (§ 4219 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 4221 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank · Joseph v. United States · Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System v. Dimension Financial Corp. · Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Slotky · Iam National Pension Fund Plan Benefits v. Clinton Engines Corporation Iam National Pension Fund Benefit Plan a
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Congress enacted the MPPAA, it “did not merely select a broad policy goal and instruct the courts to achieve that objective. Rather, Congress itself decided what rules, and exceptions to those rules, would best achieve its goals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ensures that 'the financial burden of [the] employees' vested pension benefits will not be shifted to the other employers in the plan and, ultimately, to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which insures such benefits.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to ensure that [withdrawing] employer[s] would not leave a plan with vested pension obligations that were only partially funded.”
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.