Clements v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2010
12 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 45 U.S.C. § 184 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Holland Paving Co. v. Dann · Duval Jewelry Co. v. Smith · Ward v. Allen · 46 So. 2d 871 - Dunnavant v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The material fact fully and fairly made known to the State Attorney’s office by FPL’s employees was that William, and not Walter, was the person involved in the incident occurring on April 16, 1982. Therefore, the commencement of the criminal proceedings against Walter was not caused by the employees of FPL, but solely by mistake of the State Attorney’s office. There is no genuine issue on this material fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In determining the existence of probable cause, the question is not the guilt or innocence of the accused but whether there is a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty.” (Footnote omitted.) 183 So.2d at 266 .”
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.