Board of Trustees of the Watsonville Frozen Food Welfare Trust Fund v. California Cooperative Creamery’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1415 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2015
9 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. § 1104 (§ 404 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. · Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Mullins · Cablevision Co. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc. · Venturi v. California
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every employer who is obligated to make contributions to a multiemployer plan under the terms of the plan or under the terms of a collectively bargained agreement shall ... make such contributions in accordance with the terms and conditions of such plan or such agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts must defer to the trustees' interpretation of a trust agreement unless the interpretation is arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ignore the possibility of any future negotiations between the company and the union regarding employee benefits”
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.