Reuther v. Trustees of the Trucking Employees of Passaic & Bergen County Welfare Fund’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 1074 · 1978
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Amato v. Western Union International, Inc. (1985), Borges v. Gonzales (2005)
31 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Malone v. White Motor Corp. · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Cabell v. Markham
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ERISA provides for comprehensive federal regulation of employee pension plans.... [T]he major concern of Congress was to ensure that bona fide employees with long years of employment and contributions realize anticipated pension benefits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contribution which is made by an employer,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Central States v. Wholesale Produce Supply Co. · Bailey L. Wiener Lee R. Wiener v. Eastern Arkansas Planting Company, an Arkansas General Partnership, West Memphis, Arkansas N.S. Garrott & Sons, an Arkansas General Partnership, West Memphis, Arkansas Agribank, Fcb. Bailey L. Wiener Lee R. Wiener v. Eastern Arkansas Planting Company, an Arkansas General Partnership, West Memphis, Arkansas N.S. Garrott & Sons, an Arkansas General Partnership, West Memphis, Arkansas, Agribank, Fcb“Because Congress has emphasized 'the equitable character' of [ERISA-qualifying] pension plans, we believe that equitable principles should be applied in this case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henry F. Plucinski v. I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co., Perth Amboy Management Pension Fund, William T. Harth, Alfred C. Bruggeman, John Doe and Richard Roe, Third Party v. District No. 15, International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, Third Party Appeal of I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co. · Carl Colteryahn Dairy, Inc. v. Western Pennsylvania Teamsters & Employers Pension Fund
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.