Warner-Lambert Co Inc 83-1682 v. United Retail and Wholesale Employee's Teamster Local No Pension Plan 83-1676’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 283 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2018
14 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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 4201 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1383 (§ 4203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1391 (§ 4211 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. RA Gray & Co. · Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation · United Retail & Wholesale Employees Teamsters Union Local No. 115 Pension Plan v. Yahn & Mc Donnell, Inc. · Republic Industries, Inc. v. Central Pennsylvania Teamsters Pension Fund · Bradshaw v. Carlson B US E US Po Vi 00801
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“out of a concern that ERISA did not adequately protect multiemployer pension plans from the adverse consequences that result when individual employers terminate their participation or withdraw.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) In general. (1) Liability. Any withdrawal liability incurred by an employer pursuant to part 1 of subtitle E of title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ( 29 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq.) as a result of the complete or partial withdrawal of such employer from a multiemployer plan before September 26, 1980, shall be void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that the arbitrator will ultimately have to apply the statute to the facts it finds does not render these issues inappropriate for arbitration in the first instance.”
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.