Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 802 · 1983
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. (1985), Wolfe v. Jc Penney Company Inc (1983)
15 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1021 (§ 101 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1059 (§ 209 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. § 1106 (§ 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1134 (§ 504 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Easton v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Rockwell-Standard Corp. · Industrial Equipment Company, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Emerson Electric Company, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
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.
“'are limited in their discretion by ... the common law concept that a trustee may only act within the scope of his or her authority.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Production of Records—Each employer shall promptly furnish to the Trustees, upon reasonable demand the names and current addresses of its Employees, their Social Security numbers, the hours worked by each Employee and past industry employment history in its files and such other information as the Trustees may reasonably require in connection with the administration of the Trust. The Trustees may, by their representatives, examine the pertinent records of each Employer at the Employer's place of business whenever such examination is deemed necessary or advisable by the Trustees in connection with the proper administration of the Trust. " Id., at A-46 (Art. III, § 5) (emphasis added). B 16 Central States' trustees interpret these provisions as authorizing random field audits like the one at issue in this case. In particular, they argue that the records of not-concededly-covered employees are "pertinent records”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To ensure that sufficient contributions are collected to. correlate with benefits due ... and to comport with the congressional policy of protecting employee benefit rights, some limited right of inspection and investigation may be implied both from the terms of the trust agreements and from the common law of trusts. ____ Given a limited duty to investigate on one hand, there must be a concomitant duty on the other not to undertake unreasonable investigations or inspections to pursue employee coverage or waste trust assets by unreasonably broad audits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Combs v. King
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.