Centric Corporation Trustees of Centennial State Carpenters Pension Trust Fund v. Centric Corporation US Centric Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 1514 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership (1993), City of Chanute Kansas v. Williams Natural Gas Company (1994)
8 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1398 (§ 4218 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1399 (§ 4219 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 4221 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1451 (§ 4301 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. RA Gray & Co. · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette · Smith v. Ford Motor Co. · Gull Airborne Instruments, Inc. v. Weinberger
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether granting the delay will prejudice the debtor; (2) the length of the delay and its impact on efficient court administration; (3) whether the delay was beyond the reasonable control of the person whose duty it was to perform; (4) whether the creditor acted in good faith; and (5) whether clients should be penalized for their counsel’s mistake or neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'(1) inexcusable delay in instituting a suit; and (2) resulting prejudice to defendant from such delay.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Fontaine“a failure to arbitrate does not waive a defense that the employer does not yet have,”
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.