Laborers Fringe Benefit Funds Detroit and Vicinity v. Northwest Concrete & Construction Inc M’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 1350 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Bugher v. Feightner (1983), Scarbrough v. Perez (1989)
12 federal appellate · 6 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 Operating Engineers Central Pension Fund v. Joski Construction Co. · 472 F. Supp. 1243 - Central States Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Hitchings Trucking, 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indicates that Congress intended that the enforcement provisions should have teeth: the provisions should be liberally construed 'to provide both the Secretary and participants and beneficiaries with broad remedies for redressing or preventing violations of the Act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A civil action may be brought— (3) by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary (a) to enjoin any act or practice which violates any provision of this subchapter or the terms of the plan, or (b) to obtain other appropriate equitable relief (i) to redress such violations or (ii) to enforce any provisions of this subchapter or the terms of the plan;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether or not a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan can bring an action under ERISA to enjoin a recalcitrant employer from failing to comply with the benefit plan provisions of a labor agreement.”
2 later decisions 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.