Ironworkers Local # 272 v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 531 · 1983
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2021
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Iron Workers Local # 272 v. Bowen · North River Energy Corporation v. United Mine Workers Of America
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether to award attorneys' fees to a party under section 502(g), therefore, a court should consider such factors as the following: (1) the degree of the opposing parties' culpability or bad faith; (2) the ability of the opposing parties to satisfy an award of attorneys' fees; (3) whether an award of attorneys' fees against the opposing parties would deter other persons acting under similar circumstances; (4) whether the parties requesting attorneys' fees sought to benefit all participants and beneficiaries of an ERISA plan or to resolve a significant legal question regarding ERISA itself; and (5) the relative merits of the parties' position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the Court pointed out in the prior appeal [of this case], under the fund’s Agreement and Declaration Trust trustees must comply with an arbitrator’s decision. Further, [s]ection 404(a)(1)(D) of ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (a)(1)(D), requires fiduciaries to act ‘in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plan.’ Therefore, the refusal to comply with an arbitrator’s decision is automatically a breach of fiduciary duty.””
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.