Laborers Health & Welfare Trust Fund v. Advanced Lightweight Concrete Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
240 federal appellate · 62 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 561 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Litton Financial Printing Div., Litton Business Systems, Inc. v. NLRB (1991), Bixler v. Central Pennsylvania Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund (1993)
240 federal appellate · 62 district · 15 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
reviewedLaborers Health & Welfare Trust Fund v. Advanced Lightweight Concrete Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6621 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001A · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1145 (§ 515 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1383 (§ 4203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1392 (§ 4212 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1451 (§ 4301 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · National Labor Relations Board v. Katz · American Ship Building Company v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Connell Construction Co. v. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 100
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 561 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every employer who is obligated to make contributions to a multiemployer plan under the terms of the plan or under the terms of a collectively bargained agreement shall, to the extent not inconsistent with law, make such contributions in accordance with the terms and conditions of such plan or such agreement.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“narrow category of suits seeking recovery of unpaid [noncontractual] contributions accrued during the period between contract expiration and [bargaining] impasse.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) the unpaid contributions, (B) interest on the unpaid contributions, (C) an amount equal to the greater of— (i) interest on the unpaid contributions, or (ii) liquidated damages provided for under the plan in an amount not in excess of 20 percent (or such higher percentage as may be permitted under Federal or State law) of the amount determined by the court under subparagraph (A), (D) reasonable attorney’s fees and costs of the action, to be paid by the defendant, and (E) such other legal or equitable relief as the court deems appropriate.”
6 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.