Teamsters Local 639-Employers Health Trust v. Cassidy Trucking, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 865 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Amato v. Western Union International, Inc. (1985), Kwatcher v. Massachusetts Service Employees Pension Fund (1989)
27 federal appellate · 4 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 Hall v. Cole
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the assets of a plan shall never inure to the benefit of any employer and shall be held for the exclusive purposes of providing benefits to participants of the plan.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to a plan (other than a multiemployer plan) by a mistake of fact, [the anti-inurement provision] [does] not prohibit the return of such contribution to the employer within one year after the payment of the contribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chao v. Malkani“[A]n employer [cannot] recover payments made more than a year before filing a claim for a refund under [§ 1103(c)(2)(A)(i)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chao v. Malkani
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.