Challenger v. Local Union No of International Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.2d 645 · 1980
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Kross v. Western Electric Co. (1983), Amaro v. Continental Can Co. (1984)
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel · Fox v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e note that Congress intended fund trustees to have primary responsibility for claim processing, as evidenced by the specific requirement in Sec. 503, 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1133, of a claim and appeal procedure for every employee benefit plan. To make every claim dispute into a federal case would undermine the claim procedure contemplated by the Act. It would also burden employee benefit funds with substantial expense. We believe that Congress, in adopting ERISA, did not require or contemplate such a result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“trustees do not breach their fiduciary duties by interpreting the plan in good faith, even if their interpretation is later determined to be incorrect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even assuming that [a claim was filed], the appropriate remedy would not be to dispense with compulsory arbitration but rather to extend the applicant’s time for taking the appropriate steps.”
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.