Hurd v. Hutnik’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1994
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Lewis v. Benedict Coal Corp. · Stephen Pete on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Louis Belton, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellees v. United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Harry Huge, and United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Other Persons Who Have Been Deniedpension Payments From the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund v. W. A. Boyle · Stopford v. Boonton Molding Co., Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ach ... collective bargaining agreement, and the pension plan in existence pursuant to each agreement, constituted an offer to any employee who was qualified for retirement under that plan that he could accept by retiring during the term of the agreement. Once an employee took that action, the offer-and-acceptance required to constitute a contractual obligation was complete.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... nothing prevents employers from specifically limiting their liability under a multi-employer plan to the specific contributions to be made by them on a per-hour basis for the life of each collective bargaining agreement, provided that this limitation is the express intention and understanding of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the members of the Milk Industry Association knew ..., as demonstrated in 1971 when they first sought the destruction of the fund, that termination of the plan would leave the pensioners without financial security in their declining years.”
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.