Board of Trustees of Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund v. Thompson Bldg. Materials, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. (1993), Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (1986)
22 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1001A · 29 U.S.C. § 1301 (§ 4001 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1306 (§ 4006 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1361 (§ 4061 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1362 (§ 4062 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1364 (§ 4064 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 4201 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 4202 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Fuentes v. Shevin · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Armstrong v. Manzo
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by a preponderance of the evidence that the determination was unreasonable or clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“29 U.S.C. Sec. 1401(a)(3)(A). In addition,”
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.