Denver Metropolitan Association of Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors v. Journeyman Plumbers & Gas Fitters Local No & Pipefitters Local No’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2015
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Arroyo v. United States · Alvares v. Erickson · Hinson v. National Labor Relations Board · Fanderlik-Locke Co. v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the detailed basis on which such payments are to be made is specified in a written agreement with the employer, and employees and employers are equally represented in the administration of such fund, together with such neutral persons as the representatives of the employers and the representatives of employees may agree upon.... ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The duties and burdens of the trustees of all employee welfare plans under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, are upon the individuals who serve. They must act solely in the interests of the plan participants, 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (a), may not represent an interest adverse to the plan beneficiaries, id. at § 1106(b)(2), and are personally liable in damages for breach of trust. Id. § 1109(a). The appointing authority is not responsible for the acts of the fiduciaries, unless upon some negligent selection theory. The briefs state, without contradiction, that all expenses ... are paid from the trusts, and that insurance protecting the trustees from personal liability has been procured and paid for from trust assets. The employer trustees are still employer representatives and there may still remain problems to be worked out reconciling trustee responsibilities under ERISA with Section 302 of the LMRA. But we do not see any substantial burden upon the associations here in any way inimical to the purposes of the law.”
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.