United Mine Workers of America Pension v. Pittston Company United Mine Workers of America Pension Trust’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 469 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 46 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Chateaugay Corporation v. E Shalala D Os, Nichols v. Scott (1995)
30 federal appellate · 46 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
Relies on Montana v. United States · Litton Financial Printing Div., Litton Business Systems, Inc. v. NLRB · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Metropolitan Edison Company v. National Labor Relations Board · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any Employer who employed any Participant eligible for coverage under, or who received or receives benefits under, the [1950/1974] Benefit Plan and Trust, or any Employer who was or is required to make, or who has made or makes contributions to the [1950/1974] Benefit Plan and Trust, is obligated and required to comply with the terms and conditions of the [1950/1974] Benefit Trust, as amended from time to time, including, but not limited to making the contributions required under the [1978 Wage Agreement], as amended from time to time, and any successor agreements thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]udicial estoppel is used to preclude a party from taking a position that is inconsistent with one successfully asserted by the same party in a prior proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to contribute to the trusts at the rates specified in the current NBCWA, irrespective of the employer's failure [to] sign that NBCWA.”
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.