Waits v. Weller’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 1288 · 1981
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Sambo's Restaurants, Inc. v. Wheeler (1985), Wood v. Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (1983)
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Wilko v. Swan · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a deadlock on the administration of [the trust] fund”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]rdinarily, leave to amend should be freely given in the absence of prejudice to the opposing party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). The complaint alleged that Local 525 employees, who were not employees of the contractors, received coverage from the fund without the union making corresponding contributions to the fund. The employer trustees sought damages and removal of the union as the fund's administrator. The district court accepted jurisdiction under section 502(e) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waits v. Weller
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.