Waithaka v. Amazon.com, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2020
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams · Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. AnimalFeeds International 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any other class of workers engaged in . . . commerce”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing herein contained shall apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if the worker's role in transporting the goods occurred entirely within a single state”
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.