International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. New York State Teamsters Council Health & Hospital Fund’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 919 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Linda Jones v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America (2000), Kerin v. United States Postal Service (2000)
13 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. § 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. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Amax Coal Co. · Arroyo v. United States · Miles v. New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund Employee Pension Benefit Plan · Chambless v. Masters, Mates & Pilots Pension Plan · Ernest Klein v. Shields & Company and Warner G. Cosgrove, Jr.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the awarding of attorneys' fees is discretionary, not mandatory, whichever way it exercises its discretion, a district court should make specific findings regarding the matter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. W.G. v. Senatore · W.G., as Sister and Next Best Friend on Behalf of D.G., David Ortiz, as Brother and Next Best Friend on Behalf of D.O. Robert Roy, as Father and Next Best Friend on Behalf of Johnny Doe, Intervenor-Plaintiffs v. Rose Ann Senatore, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Children & Youth Services Connecticut Department of Children & Youth Services Dolores Woodward, Superintendent of Schools, Unified School District II Waterford Country School, Inc.“for the sole and exclusive benefit of the employees of such employer, and their families and dependents (or of such employees, families, and dependents jointly with the employees of other employers making similar payments, and their families and dependents)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the district judge failed to articulate any reason for his decision to deny attorneys' fees”
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.