Khaled Abdullah’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably The St Thomas St John Hotel Tourism Association Inc (2000), 2003 Pa. Super. 86 - Shay v. Flight C Helicopter Services, Inc. (2003)
1 federal appellate · 14 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Jones v. Rath Packing Co. · Morales v. Trans World Airlines, 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though we have found federal preemption of the standards of aviation safety, we still conclude that the traditional state and territorial law remedies continue to exist for violation of those standards. Federal preemption of the standards of care can coexist with state and territorial tort remedies.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A]viation is unique among transportation industries in its relation to the federal' government — it is the only one whose operations are conducted almost wholly within federal jurisdiction, and are subject to little or no regulation by States or local authorities. Thus, the federal government bears virtually complete. responsibility for the promotion and supervision of this industry in the public interest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“chapter in a way that best tends to reduce or eliminate the possibility or recurrence of accidents in air transportation.”
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.