American Airlines, Inc. v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 108 · 1997
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 994 F. Supp. 460 - Aziz Zarif Shabazz v. Pico (1998), Wenzel v. Missouri-American Water Co. (2005)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Camfield Tires, Inc. v. Michelin Tire Corp. · Wilson v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · RSBI Aerospace, Inc. v. Affiliated FM Insurance · Davis v. Fleming Companies, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party should not be allowed to create issues of credibility by contradicting his own earlier testimony. Ambiguities and even conflicts in a deponent’s testimony are generally matters for the jury to sort out, but a district court may grant summary judgment where a party’s sudden and unexplained revision of testimony creates an issue of fact where none existed before. Otherwise, any party could head off a summary judgment motion by supplanting previous depositions ad hoc with a new affidavit, and no case would ever be appropriate for summary judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]arties to a motion for summary judgment cannot create sham issues of fact in an effort to defeat summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estate of Paul Dedrick Gray by Brenna Marie Gray, Administrator of the Estate, and Brenna Marie Gray, Individually and on Behalf of O.D.G., Minor Child of Paul Dedrick Gray and Brenna Marie Gray v. Daniel J. Baldi Daniel J. Baldi, D.O., P.C. United Anesthesia & Pain Control, P.C. Central Iowa Hospital Corporation Iowa Health Pain Management Clinic Iowa Health System Unitypoint Health Broadl · Donald Bass“[o]nly in circumstances . . . where the conflicts between the deposition and affidavit raise . . . sham issues should summary judgment be granted.”
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.