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606 F.2d 840 · 1979

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
June 2000
most recently cited

17 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Waggoner v. Dallaire (1981), Kemmis v. McGoldrick (1983)

17 federal appellate ·

1901979198019902000decided

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 Waggoner v. C & D Pipeline Co.

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “requires employers to make fringe benefit contributions for all hours worked by (or paid) employees who perform any work covered by the agreement.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he agreement requires employers to make contributions for all hours worked by employees who perform any work covered by the agreement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.