Trustees of Wyoming Laborers Health and Welfare Plan v. Morgen & Oswood Construction Company Inc of Wyoming’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 613 · 1988
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Lumpkin v. Envirodyne Industries, Inc. (1991), Held v. Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corp. (1990)
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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 29 U.S.C. § 1113 (§ 413 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. § 1145 (§ 515 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell · Gregory v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute of limitations contained in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applies only to actions brought to redress a fiduciary's breach of its obligations to enforce the provisions of ERISA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Wyoming ten-year statute of limitations for actions based on written contracts is the statute of limitations 'most analogous' to the Trustees' ERISA action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“characterization of an ERISA action as an action on contract is consistent with the legislative history of that statute and recognizes the similarity of actions under ERISA to actions brought under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act ... Congress clearly intended actions brought under ERISA to be interpreted by the courts ‘in similar fashion to those brought under section 301 of the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947.’ ... Actions under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act have typically been analogized to actions for breach of contract. 19”
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.