Golden State Transit Corp. v. City of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
449 federal appellate · 252 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,497 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Heck v. Humphrey (1994), Wilder v. Virginia Hospital Assn. (1990)
449 federal appellate · 252 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGolden State Transit Corp. v. City of Los Angeles (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2202 · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1437A
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · Cort v. Ash · Preiser v. Rodriguez · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon
Cited together with Wilder v. Virginia Hospital Assn. · Wright v. City of Roanoke Redevelopment & Housing Authority · Maine v. Thiboutot · Blessing v. Freestone · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 1,497 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beyond the competence of the judiciary to enforce.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any State ..., subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States ... to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Livadas v. Aubry · Livadas v. Aubry
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.