Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
416 federal appellate · 106 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,157 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch (1989), Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell (1985)
416 federal appellate · 106 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCentral States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1021 (§ 101 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1052 (§ 202 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1059 (§ 209 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1082 (§ 302 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 403 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Cited together with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Varity Corporation v. Howe · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates
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 1,157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]ather than explicitly enumerating all of the powers and duties of trustees and other fiduciaries, Congress invoked the common law of trusts to define the general scope of their authority and responsibility.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the exclusive purpose of ... providing benefits to participants and their beneficiaries.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters”
17 later decisions 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.