Strong’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 153 F. Supp. 2d 1115 - Firoozye v. Earthlink Network (2001), 90 F. Supp. 2d 819 - In Re Cardizem CD Antitrust Litigation (1999)
2 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 Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Avco Corporation v. Aero Lodge No 735 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers · Malone v. White Motor Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal pre-emption is ordinarily a federal defense to the plaintiffs suit. As a defense, it does not appear on the face of a well-pleaded complaint, and, therefore, does not authorize removal to federal court. One corollary of the well-pleaded complaint rule developed in the case law, however, is that Congress may so completely pre-empt a particular area that any civil complaint raising this select group of claims is necessarily federal in character.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state cause of action into the federal action for purposes of the well-pleaded complaint rule. Strong , 78 F.3d at 260 (citing Warner , 46 F.3d at 534-35 ). On the other hand, ordinary preemption is when”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any claim purportedly based on that pre-empted state law is considered, from its inception, a federal claim, and therefore arises under federal law.”
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.