190 F. Supp. 24 - Moody v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * Could plaintiffs pursue their stated claims in this court in the absence of a wrongful death statute in the State of Mississippi? Neither the statutes nor the regulations relied on by plaintiffs [the Federal Aviation Act and regulations] expressly create such a cause of action nor name the beneficiaries thereof, nor prescribe how, if at all, contributory negligence, comparative negligence, assumption of risk, measure of damages, limit of recovery or any other yardstick are to be applied on trial. Nor do these statutes or regulations fix any period of limitation within which suit must be filed. Thus, it is obvious that any trial court, under these circumstances, that attempted to proceed as if the cause were a “case arising” under the Constitution or laws of the United States would be hopelessly lost in a no man’s land of undeveloped law. 190 F.Supp. at 28 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 307 F. Supp. 892 - Zousmer v. Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Limited · 297 F. Supp. 681 - Rosdail v. Western Aviation, Inc.