Local Union No. 5 of Sheet Metal Workers' International Ass'n v. Mahoning & Trumbull County Building Trades Welfare Fund’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 636 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1999 · most notably Sellers v. J O'Connell (1983), Ca 79-3491 Turner v. Local Union No International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers of America (1979)
13 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
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Pomponio v. United States · Arroyo v. United States · Head v. New Mexico Board of Examiners in Optometry · Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. Walker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat the amended rule results in certain employers' contributions being used for other than their employees does not violate the 'sole and exclusive benefit' requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where there is no intimation of bribery, extortion or union misuse of funds” conduct does not”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the sole and exclusive benefit of the employees of such employer, and their families and dependents (or of such employees, families, and dependents jointly with the employees of other employers making similar payments, and their families and dependents)....”
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.