Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Navco L III Chicago Truck Drivers Helpers and Warehouse Workers Union Pension Fund’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 167 · 1993
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Bay Area Laundry & Dry Cleaning Pension Trust Fund v. Ferbar Corp. of California, Inc. (1997), Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield United (1997)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78I (§ 9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 1301 (§ 4001 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 4201 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. § 1451 (§ 4301 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · United States v. Kubrick · Lampf, Pleva, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow v. Gilbertson · Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n action under this section may not be brought after the later of (1) 6 years after the date on which the cause of action arose, or (2) 3 years after the earliest date on which the plaintiff acquired or should have acquired actual knowledge of the existence of such cause of action; except that in the case of fraud or concealment, such action may be brought not later than 6 years after the date of discovery of the existence of such cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Suppose a pension fund, dissatisfied with our conclusion that it has “only” six years to track down members of control groups, decides to grant itself additional time. If each overdue payment starts a new six-year period, the pension fund could decelerate payment on default — say, converting from a two-year schedule ... to a twenty-year schedule. Extra time cannot harm the fund, given that an insolvent employer will not pay on any schedule. Then once it locates what it believes is a member of the control group, the fund may demand payment of the current installment and, when this is not forthcoming, accelerate all future payments under 1399(c)(5) and file suit. Clever, but it ought not work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Correctly believing that C is insolvent, V does not explore the possibility of piercing the corporate veil. Does V's neglect [in failing to investigate S's possible liability] extend the time to make a claim against S? We could not find any case so holding. Plenty of cases reject contentions that particular claims do not accrue until the victim finds out who can be obliged to pay.”
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.