Textile Workers Pension Fund v. Standard Dye & Finishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 843 · 1984
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. (1993), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. RA Gray & Co. (1984)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1384 (§ 4204 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1391 (§ 4211 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1393 (§ 4213 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1399 (§ 4219 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1423 (§ 4243 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1451 (§ 4301 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A key problem of ongoing multiemployer pension plans, especially in declining industries, is the problem of employer withdrawal. Employer withdrawals reduce a plan’s contribution base. This pushes the contribution rate for remaining employers to higher and higher levels in order to fund past service liabilities, including liabilities generated by employers no longer participating in the plan, so-called inherited liabilities. The rising costs may encourage — or force — further withdrawals, thereby increasing the inherited liabilities to be funded by an ever-decreasing contribution base. This vicious downward spiral may continue until it is no longer reasonable or possible for the pension plan to continue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enforce, vacate, or modify an arbitrator's award.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is familiar law that legislative acts adjusting the burdens and benefits of economic life carry with them a presumption of constitutionality and that the person complaining of a due process violation must establish that the legislature has acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner. [Citations omitted.] The same rule prevails even though the effect of the legislation is to impose a new duty or liability based upon past acts.”
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.