Paige v. Henry J. Kaiser Co.’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 857 · 1987
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Parsons v. United Technologies Corp. (1997), Ethridge V. Harbor House Restaurant (1988)
65 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 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. § 1447 · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970)
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 · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he tort of wrongful discharge in violation of public policy exists independent of any contractual right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... California's OSHA regulations protect all workers, irrespective of any labor agreement. State health and safety standards benefit all employees as individual workers, not because they are or are not members of a collective bargaining association. And California's interest in providing this private cause of action is the enforcement of the underlying statute or policy, not to regulate the employment relationship ..." 826 F. 2d at 863 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The preemptive force of section 301 is so powerful as to displace entirely any state cause of action for violation of a collective bargaining agreement.”
3 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.