Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Independent Fruit & Produce Co.’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 1343 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Finley v. Special Agents Mutual Benefit Ass'n, Inc. (1992), Alton Cash v. Wal-Mart Group Health Plan (1997)
17 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1002 (§ 3 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)
Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · In re Disbarment of Gonzales · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · Yamamoto v. United States · Comora v. Radell
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 46 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, to the extent not inconsistent with law, make such contributions in accordance with the terms and conditions of such plan or such agreement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ords are to be given their plain and ordinary meaning as understood by a reasonable, average person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]ecourse to the ordinary, dictionary definition of words is not only reasonable, but may be necessary.”
2 later decisions 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.