Villar v. Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 1478 · 1986
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Miller v. Fairchild Industries, Inc. (1986), Trivelloni-Lorenzi v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1987)
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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. § 1291
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Singleton v. Wulff · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to present evidence of exceptional circumstances warranting an exception to the general rule that questions not raised [below] will not be considered on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Lauritzen, 345 U.S. at 584, 73 S.Ct. at 929.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he relative ease of access to sources of proof; availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, witnesses; possibility of view of premises, if view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive. There may also be questions as to the enforceability of a judgment if one is obtained.”
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.