Johnson v. Central Aviation Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably Clements v. T. R. Bechtel Co. (1954), Hanson v. Kynast (1986)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Continental Car-Na-Var Corp. v. Moseley · 23 Cal. 2d 840 - Valencia v. Shell Oil Co. · 83 Cal. App. 2d 375 - Malinson v. Black · Barnes v. Berendes · Hoffmann v. Lane
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the law formerly looked upon aviation as an ultrahazardous activity and the Uniform Aeronautics Act which was once adopted in many states did impose absolute liability on the owner as well as the operator or lessee of every aircraft for any damage to person or property caused by its operation unless there was contributory negligence on the part of the injured person. However, this view has come to be modified and now it is considered that properly handled by a competent pilot an airplane is not an inherently dangerous instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.