Faron v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1960
6 federal appellate · 3 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 Wyman v. Pan American Airways, Inc. · Wyman v. Pan American Airways, Inc. · Baldwin v. Powell · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Manning v. 1234 Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, as here, the gravamen of the cause of action is an alleged breach of a duty through negligence, the action is governed by the applicable law of torts, even though the allegations refer to a breach of a contract.””
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.