Universal Airline, Inc. v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.2d 993 · 1951
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Union Trust Co. (1955), Carl Zeiss Stiftung v. V. E. B. Carl Zeiss, Jena (1966)
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 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 Boske v. Comingore · Crawford v. Hubbell · Kuhn v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Kaplan v. Manhattan Life Ins. Co. of New York
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold that the complaint makes out a cause of action for injurious falsehood, which is in the nature of an action on the case, would permit plaintiff to escape the statute of limitations applicable to libel actions by the simple expedient of terming his action one on the ease instead of one for libel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The authority of courts to compel attendance of witnesses in cases pending before them is an essential part of our system of administering justice.”
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.