Willy v. Coastal Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 1160 · 1988
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Willy v. Coastal Corp. (1992), 7 Cal. 4th 525 - Santa Clara County Counsel Attorneys Ass'n v. Woodside (1994)
52 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 15 U.S.C. § 2622 (§ 23 of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Vaca v. Sipes · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) ... any civil action brought in a State court of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction, may be removed by the defendant or the defendants, to the district court of the United States for the district and division ' embracing the place where such action is pending.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“right or immunity created by the Constitution or laws of the United States must be an element, and an essential one, of the plaintiff's cause of action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.