Wallace v. Ryan-Walsh Stevedoring Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Jones v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1991), Spearman v. Exxon Coal USA, Inc. (1994)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1340 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1445 · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““LHWCA jurisprudence has its genesis early in this century. In Southern Pac. Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205 , 37 S.Ct. 524, 528-29 , 61 L.Ed. 1086 (1917), the Supreme Court ruled that states’ attempts to apply their workmen’s compensation laws to maritime injuries were constitutionally impermissible, thereby establishing the so-called Jensen line, where land meets water, at which point state jurisdiction concluded. In the ensuing years, the Court softened the rigid Jensen line somewhat, allowing states to extend their compensation coverage schemes to maritime circumstances that were maritime but ‘local in character.’ See Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia, 257 U.S. 233 , 42 S.Ct. 89 , 66 L.Ed. 210 (1921). Still, many longshoremen injured on navigable water were left without a remedy. Congress responded in 1927 by enacting the LHWCA as a federal compensation law. “With the enactment of the LHWCA, workers injured upon the navigable waters had compensation to redress their injuries. In its original version, however, the LHWCA’s coverage stopped at the shoreline, allowing compensation for injuries occurring ‘on the navigable waters,’ but only if compensation under state law was unavailable. Pub. L. No. 69-803, ch. 509, § 3(a), 44 Stat. 1424 , 1426 (1927). The line of demarcation between federal and state coverage, however, was often difficult to ascertain. As a result of the ‘doubtful jurisdictional line,’ the Supreme Court, in Davis v. Department of Labor, 317 U.S. 249, 256 , 63 S.Ct. 225,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“rests comfortably with two major policies announced in removal jurisprudence, namely, that federal courts must apply the removal statutes in a manner that carries out the intent of Congress to restrict removal, and that cases should be remanded if jurisdiction is doubtful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his Court holds that the question of whether a civil action arises under state workmen's compensation laws for purposes of § 1445(c) is an issue the resolution of which is committed to a federal law analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.