Sullivan v. American Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.3d 267 · 2005
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Fernandez (2006), New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway Co. v. Barrois (2008)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certain federal statutes are construed to have such 'extraordinary' preemptive force that state-law claims coming within the scope of the federal statute are transformed, for jurisdictional purposes, into federal claims-i.e., completely preempted,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“established that the preemptive force of § 301 of the LMRA dictates that state-law claims within the statute’s scope arise under federal law and are removable to federal court, subsequent courts have been obligated only to look at particular state-law claims to determine whether § 301, which provides for original federal jurisdiction of LMRA claims, comprehends those state-law claims. That is, once we know that a federal statute supports complete preemption, providing original jurisdiction in the federal courts over claims arising under the federal statute, in any particular case the complete- and ordinary-preemption inquiries merge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the artful-pleading doctrine and complete-preemption doctrines are coextensive and that a federal court may therefore construe a plaintiff's state-law suit as raising a federal claim only where that claim arises under a completely preemptive statute.” Id. (citing M. Nahas & Co. v. First Nat’l Bank of Hot Springs, 930 F.2d 608, 612 (8th Cir.1991)). The Sullivan Court declined to resolve this conflict, however, because that case raised only the issue of complete preemption, which the Supreme Court clearly”
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.