Molnar v. Wibbelt’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 244 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Anderson v. Alpha Portland Industries, Inc. (1988), Saporito v. Combustion Engineering Inc. (1988)
15 federal appellate ·
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. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1135 (§ 505 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Bates v. State Bar · Castor v. United States · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · United States v. Monton · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co.
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.
“to enforce a trust fund's compliance with the statutory standards set forth in subsection (c)(5) by eliminating those offensive features in the structure or operation of the trust that would cause it to fail to qualify for a (c)(5) exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“transfer all assets of the [pension] fund to the trustees of the [successor funds].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Molnar v. Wibbelt“not participants, beneficiaries, or fiduciaries of any of the new benefit funds”
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.